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- Sunal, G., et al.
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The Early Eocene Ekmekci granodiorite porphyry in the Karacabey region (Sakarya Zone, NW Turkey)
- 2019
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In: Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences. - : The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK-ULAKBIM) - DIGITAL COMMONS JOURNALS. - 1300-0985 .- 1303-619X. ; 28:4, s. 589-602
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Ekmekci granodiorite porphyry is a unit in the E-W trending, postcollisional Eocene magmatic rocks of northern Anatolia. It occurs as a relatively small stock, but represents a link between plutonic and volcanic rocks. This Early Eocene granodiorite porphyry intruded into the Upper Triassic rocks of the Karakaya complex in the Sakarya Zone. In this study we present geochemical and zircon U-Pb LA-ICP-MS age data to contribute to understanding the Early Tertiary postcollisional tectonic setting of NW Anatolia. The granodiorite porphyry includes plagioclase, quartz, hornblende, K- feldspar, biotite, and minor zircon, apatite, sphene, and opaque minerals. The stock displays medium-K talc-alkaline I-type and metaluminous affinity. Similar to other Eocene magmatic rocks, it displays characteristic features of subduction-related magmatism, such as enrichment in large-ion lithophile elements relative to high-field strength elements and enrichment of light rare earth elements relative to heavy rare earth elements with a lack of significant Eu anomalies. They are characterized by homogeneous initial Sr and Nd isotopic compositions of 0.7044-0.7049 and 0.51255-0.51260, respectively. Zircon U- Pb data indicate that the Ekmekci granodiorite porphyry was emplaced at 5.1 +/- 1 Ma (2s Ypresian). Geochemically, the Ekmekci granodiorite porphyry is similar to mafic volcanic rocks rather than the plutonic rocks of the same age. It was emplaced to the north of the Izmir-Ankara-Erzincan Suture (northern plutonic belt of NW Anatolia) and can be correlated with southern plutons such as Orhaneli, Topuk, Tepeldag, Gurgenyayla, and Sivrihisar in the Anatolide-Tauride block in terms of age.
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- Ozkan, M., et al.
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Early-Middle Jurassic metamorphic and non-metamorphic supra-subduction zone ophiolite fragments in a Late Cretaceous ophiolitic melange (northern Turkey): implications for long-lived and supra-subduction zone ophiolite formation
- 2022
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In: International Journal of Earth Sciences. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1437-3254 .- 1437-3262. ; 111, s. 2391-2408
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Late Cretaceous accretionary complexes along the Izmir-Ankara-Erzincan (IAE) Neo-Tethyan suture zone in northern Turkey record the subduction-accretion processes of the oceanic lithosphere ranging in age from the Late Triassic to the Late Cretaceous. These accretionary complexes contain fragments of Early and Middle Jurassic metamorphic and non-metamorphic ophiolites. Here, we report new geochemical and geochronological data from the metamorphic and non-metamorphic ophiolitic rocks, which are observed in the Tekelidag melange (northern Sivas) of the IAE suture zone. Geochemical characteristics of these rocks point to formation in a subduction-related tectonic setting. Igneous zircons from meta-plagiogranite injected into the meta-ophiolitic rocks yielded zircon U-Pb age of 188 +/- 4 Ma (2 sigma, Early Jurassic), and those from a non-metamorphic plagiogranite crosscutting the non-metamorphic ophiolitic rocks gave an age value of 168 +/- 2 Ma (2 sigma, Middle Jurassic). The igneous crystallization age of the non-metamorphic plagiogranite is identical with the metamorphic age of meta-ophiolitic rocks, which has been dated as Middle Jurassic (166.7 +/- 2 Ma, 2 sigma) by the Ar-40-Ar-39 method. These age data indicate that (i) the supra-subduction zone ophiolite formation lasted about 20 Ma, (ii) the supra-subduction zone ophiolite and the meta-ophiolitic rocks formed simultaneously in the Middle Jurassic, and (iii) the meta-ophiolitic rocks are remnants of the metamorphosed equivalents of the Early Jurassic supra-subduction zone oceanic crust. The supra-subduction zone ophiolite formation probably occurred over an extended period of time in the Jurassic Neo-Tethys.
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- Topuz, G., et al.
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Carboniferous high-potassium I-type granitoid magmatism in the Eastern Pontides: The Gumushane pluton (NE Turkey)
- 2010
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In: Lithos. - 0024-4937. ; 116:1-2, s. 92-110
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Gumushane pluton, a high-K calc-alkaline I-type granodionte/granite complex, forms an important component of the pre-Liassic basement of the Eastern Pontides (NE Turkey) In its eastern part, the pluton shows a compositional zonation ranging from biotite-hornblende granodiorite in the NW through biotite-hornblende granite to leucogranite/granophyre in the SE Numerous mafic microgranular enclaves (up to similar to 40 cm in diameter) suggest the former presence of globules of mafic melt during crystallization Emplacement of the pluton occurred during the latest Early Carboniferous, as shown by the 320 +/- 4 Ma (40)Ar-(39)Ar bionte/homblende and 324 +/- 6 Ma LA-ICP-MS U-Pb zircon ages. In Harker diagrams, samples of the different rock types exhibit well-defined data trends. With increasing SiO(2), the abundances of TiO(2), Al(2)O(3), Fe(2)O(3)(tot), MnO, MgO, CaO, P(2)O(5) and Sc decrease, but those of K(2)O and Rb increase However, the variations of Sr, Ba, (La/Yb)(cn) Sr/Y and Sigma REEs vs SiO(2) form distinctive groupings, which cannot be explained by a simple fractional crystallization Chondrite-normalized (cn) REE patterns of granodionte/granite samples show concave-upward shapes with (La/Yb)(cn) ranging from 5.2 to 124 and Eu/Eu* from 084 to 0.47, while there is almost no fractionation of the middle REE relative to the heavy REE In primitive mantle-normalized element concentration diagrams, all rocks display marked negative anomalies in Ba, Nb/Ta, Sr, P and Ti. but positive anomalies in K and Pb. These geochemical features imply a fractionating mineral assemblage of clinopyroxene, amphibole and plagioclase without significant involvement of garnet. The granophyres are, on the other hand, characterized by higher K(2)O/Na(2)O and Rb/Sr ratios, lower (La/Yb)(cn), ratios (1 3 to 4 8) and more pronounced negative anomalies in Ba, Nb/Ta, Sr, Eu, P and Ti Initial epsilon(Nd) values range from -3 78 to -5.30 and Nd model ages from 1 38 to 163 Ga The magmas of the granite/granodiorite portion were probably generated by partial melting of high-potassic amphibolitic rocks, and those of the granophyres by a relatively felsic micaceous crustal source. The Gumushane pluton was emplaced at the wake of the lowpressure-high-temperature metamorphism, and is regarded as a late phase of Hercynian orogeny in the Eastern Pontides (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V All rights reserved
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- Topuz, G., et al.
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Carboniferous mafic-ultramafic intrusions in the Eastern Pontides (Pulur Complex): Implications for the source of coeval voluminous granites
- 2023
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In: Lithos. - : Elsevier BV. - 0024-4937. ; 436-437
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This study deals with the age and petrogenesis of mafic-ultramafic intrusions ranging in size from a few meters to 10 km within the Early Carboniferous high-grade gneisses of the Pulur Complex in the Eastern Pontides. The intrusions comprise dunite, wehrlite, gabbronorite, leucogabbro, anorthosite and ilmenite-bearing gabbronorite of cumulus origin, and are crosscut by dikes of ilmenite-bearing gabbronorite, leucogranite and microdiorite. U–Pb dating on zircons from gabbronorite, anorthosite and leucogranite yielded igneous crystallization ages of 322–326 Ma, indicating that the intrusions were emplaced ca. 5–7 Ma after the peak of high-grade metamorphism, and form part of the Late Carboniferous high-volume magmatism in the region. In most cumulate rocks, Cr–Al spinel, olivine and plagioclase were early crystallizing phases, followed by orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene and hornblende. Whole rock geochemical data suggest that wehrlite, gabbronorite, leucogabbro and anorthosite stem from a common magma, and ilmenite-bearing gabbronorite and dikes of leucogranite and microdiorite from different magmas. Application of mineral/melt partition coefficients to trace element compositions of clinopyroxene and hornblende in cumulate rocks suggests that the main cumulate body was derived from middle- to high-K calc-alkaline basic melts, and relatively late ilmenite-bearing gabbronorites from hypersthene-normative Ca-rich melts. All the rock types display radiogenic Sr and Pb isotopic signatures, and unradiogenic Nd isotopic ratios, which are indistinguishable from those of the coeval voluminous high-K calc-alkaline I-type granites in the region; the isotopic ratios are probably related to the metasomatism of the lithospheric mantle by sediment-derived melts. We suggest that the parental melts of the mafic-ultramafic intrusions and those of the high-K calc-alkaline granites were genetically related, and melts of the high-K calc-alkaline granites were probably derived from the melting of newly underplated calc-alkaline basic material at lower crustal depths, that were compositionally comparable to the parental magmas of the mafic-ultramafic intrusions.
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- Topuz, G., et al.
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East Anatolian plateau constructed over a continental basement: No evidence for the East Anatolian accretionary complex
- 2017
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In: Geology. - : Geological Society of America. - 0091-7613. ; 45:9, s. 791-794
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The East Anatolian plateau (Turkey) is extensively covered by Neogene to Quaternary volcanic-sedimentary rocks, and is characterized by an attenuated lithospheric mantle. Its pre-Neogene basement is commonly considered to consist entirely of Late Cretaceous to Oligocene oceanic accretionary complexes, formed at the junction of several continental blocks. Here we report on three main exposures of the pre-Neogene basement in this region. The exposed areas consist mainly of amphibolite-to granulite-facies metamorphic rocks, including marble, amphibolite, metapelite, metagranite, and metaquartzite. An upper amphibolite-to granulitefacies domain is equilibrated at similar to 0.7 GPa and similar to 800 degrees C at 83 +/- 2 Ma (2 sigma). U-Pb dating of magmatic zircons from the metagranite yielded a Late Ordovician-early Silurian protolith age (444 +/- 9 Ma, 2 sigma). The detrital zircons from one metaquartzite point to a Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic provenance. Ophiolitic rocks tectonically sit on the metamorphic rocks. Both the metamorphic and ophiolitic rocks are in turn unconformably covered by lower Maastrichtian clastic rocks and reefal limestones, suggesting that the whole exhumation process and juxtaposition with the ophiolitic rocks had occurred by the early Maastrichtian. Several lines of evidence, such as (1) the absence of any indication of a former high-pressure metamorphism in the metamorphic rocks, (2) the allochthonous nature of the ophiolitic rocks, (3) the presence of metagranite with a Late Ordovician-early Silurian protolith age, and (4) the Neoproterozoic- early Paleozoic provenance of detrital zircons in the metaquartzite (in contrast to the dominance of late Paleozoic-Mesozoic crystalline rocks in the adjacent continental blocks) indicate a substantial component of continental basement beneath the Neogene to Quaternary cover. Thus, the loss of the lithospheric mantle probably resulted from lithospheric foundering processes beneath the plateau, rather than just slab steepening and break-off.
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- Topuz, G., et al.
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Jurassic ophiolite formation and emplacement as backstop to a subduction-accretion complex in northeast Turkey, the Refahıye ophiolite, and relation to the Balkan ophiolites
- 2013
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In: American Journal of Science. - : American Journal of Science (AJS). - 0002-9599. ; 313:10, s. 1054-1087
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The eastern Mediterranean region within the Tethyan realm shows a high concentration of ophiolites with contrasting times of formation and emplacement along the belt: In the Balkans, the ophiolites formed during the early to medial Jurassic, and were obducted during the late Jurassic, whereas in Turkey and farther east, structurally intact Jurassic ophiolites are rare and Jurassic ophiolite obduction is unknown. Here we report a structurally intact, large ophiolite body of early Jurassic age from NE Turkey, the Refahiye ophiolite, located close to the suture zone between the Eastern Pontides and the Menderes-Taurus block. The Refahiye ophiolite forms an outcrop belt, 175 km long and 20 km wide, and is tectonically bound by the late Cretaceous ophiolitic melange to the south, and by the North Anatolian Transform Fault against the Triassic low-grade metamorphic rocks to the north. Early to medial Jurassic very low- to low-grade metamorphic rocks, interpreted as intraoceanic subduction-accretion complexes, occur either beneath the ophiolite or as thrust slices within it. The ophiolite body within the studied section is made up of mantle peridotite (clinopyroxene-bearing harzburgite and minor dunite) crosscut by up to 20 cm thick veins of clinopyroxenite and later dikes/pods/stocks of gabbro ranging in size from 2 m to several hundreds of meters. The gabbro is represented by two distinct types: (i) cumulate gabbro, and (ii) non-cumulate gabbro with locally well-developed igneous foliation. Within the non-cumulate gabbro or enclosing peridotite, there are up to 5 m and 50 cm-thick veins of trondhjemite and pegmatitic gabbro, respectively. LA-ICP-MS dating on zircons from two irondhjemite samples yielded weighted mean ages of similar to 184 +/- 4 Ma and 178 +/- 4 Ma (2 sigma), respectively, suggesting formation during early Jurassic time. Formation in a suprasubduction-zone forearc setting is inferred from (i) wide-ranging pyroxene and spinel compositions in the peridotites as documented in most suprasubduction-zone ophiolites, (ii) arc tholeiitic signature of the non-cumulate gabbros, and (iii) association of the ophiolite with the coeval subduction-accretion complexes. Emplacement of a trapped forearc ophiolite above its own subduction-accretion complex as a backstop is proposed based on a series of field relationships such as (i) intimate association of the unsubducted suprasubduction-zone ophiolite with coeval accretionary complexes, (ii) absence of unambiguous relationship to the southern Atlantic-type continental margin, and (iii) absence of any stratigraphic indications for the ophiolite obduction in the southern Atlantic-type continental margin during Jurassic time. This is a clear difference from the Jurassic ophiolites in the Balkans that were obducted over the Atlantic-type continental margin. This difference in mode of emplacement is most probably related to the greater distance of the intra-oceanic subduction zone to the Atlantic-type continental margin than it was in the Balkans, which is commensurate with the greater width of the Tethys in the east during Jurassic time.
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- Topuz, G, et al.
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Origin and significance of Early Miocene high‑potassium I-type granite plutonism in the East Anatolian plateau (the Taşlıçay intrusion)
- 2019
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In: Lithos. - : Elsevier BV. - 0024-4937. ; 348-349
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- © 2019 Elsevier B.V. The Early Miocene high-K I-type plutonic rocks constitute the early products of the Neogene to Quaternary magmatism, and the youngest exposed intrusions in the East Anatolian plateau. Here we deal with the petrogenesis of the Early Miocene Taşlıçay intrusion covering an area of ∼62 km2. The intrusion comprises leucogranite, and minor gabbro-monzodiorite and rhyolite porphyry. U-Pb dating of zircons from the leucogranite, monzodiorite and rhyolite porphyry yielded identical igneous crystallization ages of ∼19 Ma (Early Miocene). According to the modified alkali-lime index, the leucogranite and the rhyolite porphyry are alkali-calcic, while the gabbro-monzodiorite is transitional calcic to calc-alkalic. On variation diagrams, the gabbro-monzodiorite and the leucogranite as well as rhyolite porphyry form distinct bimodal groupings, whereby the leucogranite display well-defined linear differentiation trends, in contrast to the gabbro-monzodiorite. The leucogranite has relatively fractionated rate earth element (REE) patterns with concave-upward shapes and significant negative Eu anomalies; middle REEs are hardly fractionated with respect to heavy REEs. The gabbro-monzodiorite is characterized by high abundances of incompatible elements, slightly fractionated chondrite-normalized REE patterns with feebly negative Eu anomaly. The rhyolite porphyry is compositionally similar to the leucogranite. The geochemical features imply a fractionating mineral assemblage of hornblende, plagioclase and biotite for the leucogranite, and hornblende and ± plagioclase for the gabbro-monzodiorite. All the rock types display a narrow Sr and Nd isotopic variation (initial 87Sr/86Sr = 0.7053 to 0.7065; initial εNd = −0.5 to −3.8). The leucogranite and rhyolite porphyry exhibit gradually slightly higher initial 87Sr/86Sr and lower initial 143Nd/ 144Nd ratios relative to the gabbro-monzodiorite. Similarly, δ18O and initial εHf values of zircons suggest slightly increasing amount of crustal component from the leucogranite to the rhyolite porphyry. The gabbro-monzodiorite is probably related to partial melts from the slightly enriched lithospheric mantle. The magmas of the leucogranite and the rhyolite porphyry, on the other hand, probably resulted from the remelting of a middle- to high-K basic to intermediate rocks, compositionally similar to the gabbro-monzodiorite, and assimilated gradually slightly increasing amount of old high-silica crustal material. Several lines of evidence such as (i) presence of the well-developed dike swarm of rhyolite porphyry at the north eastern margin of the intrusion, (ii) exhumation of the intrusion at the earth's surface by Middle Miocene, (iii) widespread apatite fission tract ages between 22 and 16 Ma from literature, and (iv) the absence of the exposed intrusions younger than the Early Miocene suggest that the Early Miocene represents probably a time of continental extension and exhumation in Eastern Anatolia and NW Iran.
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- Topuz, G., et al.
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Post-collisional adakite-like magmatism in the Agvanis Massif and implications for the evolution of the Eocene magmatism in the Eastern Pontides (NE Turkey)
- 2011
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In: Lithos. - 0024-4937. ; 125:1-2, s. 131-150
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the Anatolia, the Caucasus and northwest Iran, the Eocene epoch is characterized by widespread basic to acidic magmatism, whose temporal and spatial evolutions and origin are poorly understood. In this paper, we provide geochronological and geochemical data on a suite of Early Eocene intrusions from northeast Turkey and discuss their origin within a regional tectonic framework. Post to late-collisional, moderate to small bodies of quartz diorite and leucogranodiorite as well as later dacite porphyries intrude Permo-Triassic low-grade metamorphic rocks in the southern part of the Eastern Pontides very close to the Neo-Tethyan Izmir-Ankara-Erzincan suture. In places, the intrusives display well-developed subsolidus foliations, indicating ongoing penetrative deformation during and shortly after emplacement. Different emplacement depths were inferred based on the contact metamorphic mineral assemblages. Al-in-hornblende barometry and igneous textures (quartz diorite similar to 14-16 km vs dacitic porphyries <= 7 km). Biotite and hornblende Ar-Ar and zircon U-Pb data indicate that the compositionally and texturally different intrusives were emplaced at similar to 51 Ma (Ypresian). Three lines of evidence indicate that the Early Eocene represents a tectonically active time with high exhumation rates (>= 0.6 cm a(-1)): (i) the quartz diorite and dacitic porphyries were emplaced at different crustal depths, (ii) the emplacement ages of these texturally distinct intrusive rocks are geochronologically undistinguishable, and (iii) intrusive rocks locally show a well-developed foliation. The intrusive rocks display high abundances of Al2O3, Sr, Ba. LREEs and low abundances of Y, Sc and HREEs, and are similar to high-silica adakites from supra-subduction zone settings. The geochemical features imply a residual and/or fractionating assemblage rich in hornblende, garnet, pyroxene, and poor in plagioclase. All rock types display similar Sr-Nd isotopic characteristics with initial epsilon(Nd) and Sr-87/Sr-86 values ranging from 1.0 to -1.1 and from 0.70421 to 0.70494, respectively. These three coeval rock groups (quartz diorite. leucogranodiorite and dacite porphyries) were generated from a similar source by variable degrees of partial melting and fractionation. These data together with those from the literature clearly reveal that the adakitic signature is common in Paleocene to Early Eocene igneous rocks in northern Turkey on both sides of the Izmir-Ankara-Erzincan suture, but disappears towards the Middle Eocene. Regional geological constraints indicate that the continental collision between the Pontides and the Anatolide-Tauride block occurred in the Paleocene and that the Middle Eocene represents a period of major extension, characterized by a marine transgression. We therefore suggest that the Early Eocene adakitic magmatism in northern Turkey resulted from the presence of a thickened continental crust following the continental collision along the Neo-Tethyan Izmir-Ankara-Erzincan suture whereas the voluminous Middle Eocene magmatism was related to extensional collapse of a thickened orogen. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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- Topuz, G, et al.
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Silurian anorogenic basic and acidic magmatism in Northwest Turkey: Implications for the opening of the Paleo-Tethys
- 2020
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In: Lithos. - : Elsevier BV. - 0024-4937. ; 356-357
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- © 2019 Elsevier B.V. The Sakarya Zone (northern Turkey) is a Gondwana-derived continental block accreted to northern Laurussia during the Carboniferous, and is regarded as the eastward extension of Armorica. Timing of its detachment from the northern margin of Gondwana, thus opening of the Paleo-Tethys, is poorly known. Here, we report on metagranite and amphibolite with Silurian igneous crystallization ages from the Early Carboniferous high-temperature/middle to low-pressure amphibolite-facies metamorphic rocks of the Sarıcakaya Massif within the Sakarya Zone (NW Turkey). The metagranite-amphibolite complex is exposed mainly along the southern margin of the Sarıcakaya Massif over an area of ca. 12 km by 1.5 km. The metagranite contains preserved domains of porphyric texture, indicative of derivation from a former granite porphyry. The amphibolite is devoid of any relict igneous texture. Both the metagranite and amphibolite are crosscut by late up to 50 cm thick felsic veins. Uranium-Pb dating on igneous zircons from both metagranite and amphibolite yielded Silurian ages of ca. 419 ± 6 to 434 ± 7 Ma (2σ), and on those from a felsic vein an age of 319 ± 5 Ma (2σ) (Late Carboniferous). Geochemically, amphibolite displays anorogenic transitional tholeiitic to alkaline signatures. Initial εHf values of the igneous zircons from both metagranite and amphibolite show a large variation with medial values of −16 to −9 and + 3 to +6, respectively. Thus, the protoliths of amphibolite were derived from melts of depleted mantle, and those of the metagranite, on the other hand, from melts of reworked crustal material. We suggest that the Silurian anorogenic magmatism is related to a rifting event at the northern margin of Gondwana leading to the detachment of the Sakarya Zone and hence placing an age on the initial opening of the Paleo-Tethys. This interpretation is based on (i) the presence of Late Silurian to Devonian deep-sea sedimentary blocks in the Paleo-Tethyan accretionary complexes, and (ii) the resemblance of the U[sbnd]Pb age spectra of detrital zircons in the metaclastic sequence of the Sarıcakaya Massif to those of Cambro-Ordovician sandstones in Jordan (Gondwana), and (iii) the local occurrence of anorogenic A-type granites of Late Ordovician-Silurian age in the Anatolide-Tauride Block, a continental block which rifted from Gondwana during the Early Triassic. Wholly anorogenic nature of the Late Ordovician to Silurian igneous rocks in the Sarıcakaya Massif and reported in literature does not support the opening of the Paleo-Tethys as back-arc ocean, as suggested in most paleogeographic reconstructions.
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