The ductile shear zone in granitoid of the Central Anatolian Crystalline Complex, Turkey: Implications for the origins of the Tuzgolu basin during the Late Cretaceous extensional deformation


IŞIK V.

JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES, cilt.34, sa.4, ss.507-521, 2009 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 34 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2009
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2008.08.005
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.507-521
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Granitoid, Extension, Ductile shear zone, Kinematic indicators, Tuzgolu basin, Central Turkey, TERTIARY ULUKISLA BASIN, DYNAMIC RECRYSTALLIZATION, EVOLUTION, FELDSPAR, TRANSITION, CRITERIA, STRAIN, MASSIF, SENSE, FAULT
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

The Emizozu shear zone is the west-northwest-trending ductile shear zone within the Agacoren granitoid in central Turkey. Deformation that affected the granitoid along the Emizozu shear zone resulted in mylonites with mylonitic foliation and stretching lineation. The textural features of the deformed minerals suggest that mylonitization occurred under conditions of upper greenschist facies. The shear indicators, including asymmetric porphyroclasts, oblique foliation. and shear bands, suggest a down-dip.(top-to-the-southwest) displacement. The orientation of stretching lineation, as well as kinematic indicators, indicates the extensional character of the Emizozu shear zone. Although it is not precisely dated, the available age constraints suggest that the zone formed at 78-71 Ma. According to field and micro-structural data, the Agacoren granitoid was most likely emplaced during a regional deformation in central Turkey, and synchronously or shortly after was overprinted by the extensional Emizozu shear zone. The zone can also be correlated with the earlier stage development of the Tuzgolu basin in central Turkey. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.