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Encyclopedia of European and Asian Regional Geology

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Turkey forms a three-way bridge between Asia, Europe and Africa (Fig. 579). This peculiar location is reflected in both its cultural development and its geological evolution. Physiographically, it consists of two peninsulas — Thrace and Anatolia (Asia Minor) — which are separated by the Sea of Marmara, and two straits: the Bosporus connecting the Black Sea and the Dardanelles connecting the Aegean Sea (Fig. 580). The country has a roughly rectangular shape, defined approximately by latitudes 36° N and 42° N and longitudes 26° E and 45° E.

Fig. 579
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Tectonic setting of Turkey and its orogenic units, i.e., tectono-stratigraphic domains generated during the Neotethyan evolution (modified from Şengör and Yilmaz, 1981).

Neotethyan ‘autochthonous Mélange’ indicates Neotethyan sutures. Open triangles show the possible location of a Hercynian suture, the early Carboniferous closure of which deformed the Paleozoic terrane of Istanbul-Zonguldak. The black triangles indicate the Karakaya Suture,...

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ŞEngöR, A.M.C. (1997). Turkey. In: Encyclopedia of European and Asian Regional Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4495-X_99

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