@article{JolivetRimmeleOberhaenslietal.2004,
  author    = {Jolivet, L. and Rimmele, Gaetan and Oberh{\"a}nsli, Roland and Goffe, B. and Candan, O.},
  title     = {Correlation of syn-orogenic tectonic and metamorphic events in the Cyclades, the Lycian nappes and the Menderes massif : Geodynamic implications},
  issn      = {0037-9409},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {The recent discovery of HP-LT parageneses in the basal unit of the Lycian nappes and in the Mesozoic cover of the Menderes massif leads us to reconsider and discuss the correlation of this region with the nearby collapsed Hellenides in the Aegean domain. Although similarities have long been pointed Out by various authors, a clear correlation has not yet been proposed and most authors insist more on differences than similarities. The Menderes massif is the eastern extension of the Aegean region but it has been less severely affected by the Aegean extension during the Oligo-Miocene. It would thus be useful to use the structure of the Menderes massif as an image of the Aegean region before a significant extension has considerably reduced its crustal thickness. But the lack of correlation between the two regions has so far hampered Such comparisons. We describe the main tectonic units and metamorphic events in the two regions and propose a correlation. We then show possible sections of the two regions before the Aegean extension and discuss the involvement of continental basement in the Hellenic accretionary complex. In our interpretation the Hellenic- Tauric accretionary complex was composed of stacked basement and cover units which underwent variable P-T histories. Those which were not exhumed early enough later followed a high-T evolution which led to partial melting in the Cyclades during post-orogenic extension. Although the Menderes massif contains a larger volume of basement units it does not show significant evidence for the Oligo-Miocene migmatites observed in the center of the Cyclades suggesting that crustal partial melting is strictly related to post-orogenic extension in this case},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{RimmeleParraGoffeetal.2005,
  author    = {Rimmele, Gaetan and Parra, T. and Goffe, B. and Oberh{\"a}nsli, Roland and Jolivet, L. and Candan, O.},
  title     = {Exhumation paths of high-pressure-low-temperature metamorphic rocks from the Lycian Nappes and the Menderes Massif (SW Turkey) : a multi-equilibrium approach},
  issn      = {0022-3530},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {The Menderes Massif and the overlying Lycian Nappes occupy an extensive area of SW Turkey where high-pressure- low-temperature metamorphic rocks occur. Precise retrograde P-T paths reflecting the tectonic mechanisms responsible for the exhumation of these high-pressure-low-temperature rocks can be constrained with multi-equilibrium P-T estimates relying on local equilibria. Whereas a simple isothermal decompression is documented for the exhumation of high-pressure parageneses from the southern Menderes Massif, various P-T paths are observed in the overlying Karaova Formation of the Lycian Nappes. In the uppermost levels of this unit, far from the contact with the Menderes Massif, all P-T estimates depict cooling decompression paths. These high-pressure cooling paths are associated with top-to-the-NNE movements related to the Akcakaya shear zone, located at the top of the Karaova Formation. This zone of strain localization is a local intra-nappe contact that was active in the early stages of exhumation of the high-pressure rocks. In contrast, at the base of the Karaova Formation, along the contact with the Menderes Massif, P-T calculations show decompressional heating exhumation paths. These paths are associated with severe deformation characterized by top-to-the-east shearing related to a major shear zone (the Gerit shear zone) that reflects late exhumation of high-pressure parageneses under warmer conditions},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{CandanCetinkaplanOberhaenslietal.2005,
  author    = {Candan, O. and Cetinkaplan, Mete and Oberh{\"a}nsli, Roland and Rimmele, Gaetan and Akal, Cemal B.},
  title     = {Alpine high-P/low-T metamorphism of the Afyon Zone and implications for the metamorphic evolution of Western Anatolia, Turkey},
  issn      = {0024-4937},
  year      = {2005},
  abstract  = {Carpholite+chloritoid+pyrophyllite association occurs widely in the Triassic metaclastic rocks of the Afyon Zone in west-central Turkey. Fe-Mg-carpholite is associated with rare aragonite pseudomorphs and glaucophane in marbles and metabasites, respectively. The Afyon Zone consists stratigraphically of a Pan-African basement and an overlying Mesozoic cover sequence. The Pan-African basement, which shows Barrovian-type amphibolite-facies metamorphism, comprises garnet-mica schists, intruded by sodic amphibole-bearing metagabbros and leucocratic metagranites. It is unconformably overlain by a continuous metasedimentary sequence extending from Triassic to early Palaeocene. This cover sequence begins with metaconglomerates, which pass upwards into phyllites. Fe-Mg-carpholite occurs within this metaclastic sequence as rosette-like crystals in metapelites and fibres in quartz segregations. The metaclastic rocks are succeeded by metamorphosed platform carbonates, grading into Latest Mesozoic metamorphosed pelagic limestones, which in turn progress up to a Late Mesozoic-Early Tertiary olistostrome. This sequence is tectonically overlain by the blueschists of the Tavsanh Zone. Fe-Mg-carpholite-bearing assemblages imply temperatures of about 350 degrees C and minimum pressures of 6-9 kbar, corresponding to burial depths of about 30 km for the Mesozoic passive continental margin sediments and the underlying Pan-African supracrustal metasediments and metaintrusives. The metamorphic rocks of the Afyon Zone are unconformably overlain by Upper Palaeocene-Lower Eocene sedimentary rocks, indicating a Paleocene age for the regional HP/LT metamorphism. This implies continuous younging of HP/LT metamorphism in the Anatolides related to northward subduction of the Anatolide-Tauride platform beneath the Sakarya Zone. From north to south this involved the Tavsanh Zone (Campanian, 80 +/- 5 Ma), the Afyon Zone (Palaeocene?), the Menderes Massif (Middle Eocene) and the Lycian Nappes (Late Cretaceous-Eocene?), all of which were probably derived from the frontal part of the Anatolide-Tauride platform. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved},
  language  = {en}
}