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Supradetachment Basin Tectonics and The Exhumation History of The Menderes Core Complex, Western Anatolia - Turkey

ONER, ZEYNEP
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1336074669

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2012, Doctor of Philosophy, Miami University, Geology and Environmental Earth Science.
Supradetachment basins are asymmetric extensional depocenters that develop in the hanging walls of low-angle detachment faults in metamorphic core complexes, and display a sedimentary and structural record of the uplift, exhumation and extensional deformation history of both the footwall and hanging wall units. Exhumed, high-grade lower to middle crustal rocks and syn-extensional granitoid intrusions in the core complexes commonly make up the main provenance of these basins. Thus, a better understanding of the structure, stratigraphy and tectonic history of supradetachment basins in higly-extending terrains provides significant information and spatial-temporal constraints about the mode, nature and kinematics of extensional deformation. This dissertation study has focused on the structure and tectonics of the Alasehir detachment fault and supradetachment basin in the Central Menderes Massif in western Anatolia (Turkey) in order to quantify the uplift, exhumation and cooling history of the Menderes core complex in the late Cenozoic, and the associated accommodation space development in response to extensional deformation. In this Ph.D study I have documented the supradetachment basin evolution in continental extension; fault kinematics in supradetachment basin development; structure, petrofabric and geochemistry of a syn-extensional granitoid intrusion in the Menderes core complex; and, diachronous exhumation and cooling history of the Menderes core complex based on the results of the low-temperature thermochronology analysis. The results and implications of this work also answer some other important questions regarding the mode and nature of continental extensional deformation in the Aegean province of western Anatolia, fault-controlled segmentation and compartmentalization of supradetachment basins, and the role of magmatism in extensional deformation and metamorphic core complex formation in general.
Yildirim Dilek, PhD (Advisor)
Mike R. Brudzinski, PhD (Committee Member)
Brian S. Currie, PhD (Committee Member)
Jason Rech, PhD (Committee Member)
Samir Bali, PhD (Committee Member)
284 p.
Geochemistry; Geological; Geology; Sedimentary Geology
Extensional tectonics; Supradetachment basin; Metamorphic core complex; Uplift and exhumation history; western Anatolia,Turkey

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  • ONER, Z. (2012). Supradetachment Basin Tectonics and The Exhumation History of The Menderes Core Complex, Western Anatolia - Turkey [Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1336074669

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  • ONER, ZEYNEP. Supradetachment Basin Tectonics and The Exhumation History of The Menderes Core Complex, Western Anatolia - Turkey. 2012. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1336074669.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • ONER, ZEYNEP. "Supradetachment Basin Tectonics and The Exhumation History of The Menderes Core Complex, Western Anatolia - Turkey." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1336074669

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