Projelerimiz ve Çıktılarımız

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ulusal ve uluslararası araştırma projesine ve ortak yayına katkı sağlamıştır.

Ulusal ve Uluslararası Ortaklıklar

Devam Eden Projelerimiz

İTÜ-BAP, MGA-2026-48767. Geç Triyas-Erken Jura yaşlı kırıntı zirkonların kökenlerinin iz element, nadir toprak element ve Lu-Hf analizleri ile araştırılması (Pontidler Türkiye) 2026-Devam ediyor.
TÜBİTAK ÇAYDAG 1001 Proje No: 125Y451. Sakarya ve Rodop--Istranca Zonları Arasındaki Kıtasal Çarpışmanın Zamanlaması: Ofiyolitik ve Yüksek Basınç Metamorfik Kayaçlardan Bulgular 2026-2029. Devam ediyor.
TÜBİTAK ÇAYDAG 1001 Proje No: 125Y453. Afyon Zonu Üzerine Ofiyolit Yerleşimi ve Önemi: Murat Dağı Örneği 2026-2029. Devam ediyor.
TÜBİTAK-3501 Kariyer Proje No: 124R135. Maşukiye ve Sapanca Düşük Dereceli Metamorfitlerinin Evrimi ve Pontid-İçi Kenedi ile İlişkileri 2025-2027. Devam ediyor.
İTÜ-BAP, MGA-2025-46989. Afyon Zonu'nun En Eski Geçmişinin Aydınlatılması: Murat Dağı Örneği 2025-Devam ediyor.
İTÜ-BAP, MDK-2024-45792. Afyon Zonu Metamorfizması ile Ofiyolit Yerleşimi Arasındaki İlişki: Murat Dağı Örneği 2024-Devam ediyor.
TÜBİTAK MAG 1001 Proje No: 122R088. Menderes Masifi'nin Alpin Metamorfizmasının Basınç-Sıcaklık-Zaman Evrimi ve Tektonik Modeli 2023-2027. Devam ediyor.

TÜBİTAK Projeleri

TÜBİTAK MAG 1001 Proje No: 122R002. Bolu Masifi ve Karadere Metamorfitleri'nin Evrimi: İstanbul Zonu'nun En Eski Geçmişinin Aydınlatılması 2022-2025.
TÜBİTAK YDABÇAG 1001 Proje No: 119Y208. İnegöl Havzası'nın Stratigrafisi ve Tektono-Sedimanter Gelişimi (KB Anadolu) 2020-2023.
TÜBİTAK ÇAYDAG 1001 Proje No: 117Y392. Orta Anadolu Kristalin Karmaşığı ve Doğu Toroslar Arasında Yer Alan Ofiyolitik ve Metamorfik Kayaçların Petrojenezi 2018-2020.
TÜBİTAK 1001 Proje No: 116YR007. Pontid-İçi Kenedinin Evrimi 2017-2020.
TÜBİTAK ÇAYDAG 1001 Proje No: 116Y234. Tokat Masifi'nin Tektono-Metamorfik Gelişimi: Lavrasya'nın Güney Kenarının Eklenmeli Mesozoyik Evrimine İlişkin Çıkarımlar 2017-2020.
TÜBİTAK-TUNUS MHESR Proje No: 114Y401. Tetis Güney ve Kuzey Şelflerinde Yer Alan Tunus ve Türkiye'deki Erken Eosen Platform İstifleri ve Foraminifer Yığışımlarının İri Bentik Foraminifer Stratigrafisi, Sedimantolojisi ve Tektonik Analizi 2015-2017.
TÜBİTAK ÇAYDAG 3001 Proje No: 114Y834. Biga Yarımadası'nda (KB Anadolu) Yer Alan Yüksek Basınç Metamorfik Kayalarının Rutil İz Element Jeokimyası, Termometresi ve Jeokronolojisi 2015-2017.
TÜBİTAK ÇAYDAG 1001 Proje No: 114Y226. Doğu Anadolu Platosu'nun Temeli'nin Niteliği: Hınıs (Erzurum) ve Taşlıçay (Ağrı) Metamorfitlerinin P-T-T Evrimi ve Ofiyolitik Kayaçlarla İlişkisi 2014-2017.
TÜBİTAK 1001 Proje No: 113R007. Kuzeybatı Anadolu'da Kıtasal Yitilme, Çarpışma ve Havza Gelişimi: Nallıhan-Mihalıççık-Haymana Bölgesi 2013-2016.
TÜBİTAK-CNR Proje No: 106Y202 (uluslararası proje). Dalma-Batma Zonunun Dinamiğine Yönelik Petrolojik Kısıtlar: İzmir-Ankara Kenet Zonu Örneği 2012-2014.
TÜBİTAK ÇAYDAG-PIA Proje No: 111Y137. Dalma-Batma Zonunun Dinamiğine Yönelik Petrolojik Kısıtlar: İzmir-Ankara Kenet Zonu Örneği 2012-2014.
TÜBİTAK ÇAYDAG 1001 Proje No: 112Y123. İzmir-Ankara-Erzincan Kenet Zonu İçinde, Çamlıbel (Tokat) ve Kızıldağ (Sivas) Çevresinde Yüzeyleyen Ofiyolitik ve Metamorfik Toplulukların Petrojenezi 2012-2015.
TÜBİTAK ÇAYDAG 1001 Proje No: 110Y057. Uludere Tektonik Penceresinde (Kahramanmaraş Kuzeyi) Yer Alan Berit Metaofiyolitleri ve Malatya Metamorfitlerinin Tektonometamorfik Evrimleri 2010-2013.
TÜBİTAK ÇAYDAG 1001 Proje No: 109Y059. Doğu Pontidlerin Liyas Öncesi Jeolojik Evriminin Sınırlandırılması: Ağvanis, Dereli ve Refahiye Metamorfitlerinin Basınç-Sıcaklık-Zaman Gelişimi 2009-2012.
TÜBİTAK 1001 Proje No: 109Y049. Orta Karadeniz Dağlarında Sakarya ile İstanbul Zonları Arasındaki Sınırın Niteliği ve Jeolojik Evrimi 2009-2013.
TÜBİTAK-NKTH Proje No: 106Y202. Trakya Havzası (KB Türkiye) ve Macaristan Paleojen Havzalarının Karşılaştırmalı Stratigrafik, Sedimentolojik, Tektonik Analizi ve İri Bentik Foraminiferlerin Evriminin İrdelenmesi 2008-2010.
TÜBİTAK ÇAYDAG Proje No: 104Y155. Ganos Fay Zonu ve Çevresinin Oligosen Sonrası Tektonik Evrimi: Trakya'da Paleotektonik Dönemden Neotektonik Döneme Geçişin Niteliği 2005-2007.
TÜBİTAK ÇAYDAG 1001 Proje No: 104Y284. Gümüşhane Granitoyidinin Petrojenezi 2005-2008.
TÜBİTAK YDABAG Proje No: 101Y032. Orta Pontidler'de Elekdağ Masifi'nin Tektonik Evrimi 2001-2003.

BAP Projeleri

İTÜ-BAP, MGA-2025-47003, Artvin yöresi Jura istiflerinin kaynak alan analizi: Pontidler'in Karbonifer-Jura arasındaki evriminin kırıntı zirkon U-Pb yaş iz element ve Lu-Hf analizleri ile araştırılması 2025-2026.
İTÜ-BAP, MAB-2024-45589. Avrasya ve Arap Levhalarının İlk Çarpışma Zamanının Belirlenmesi GD Türkiye 2024-2025.
İTÜ-BAP, MYL-2023-44691. Geochemical Characterization of the Metabasic Rocks in the Lower Karakaya Complex (Western Pontides) 2024.
İTÜ-BAP, 33578. Refahiye Metamorfitlerinin (Erzincan) Jeolojik Evrimi ve Jeodinamik Önemi 2021.
İTÜ-BAP, 39758. Tokat Masifi'nin Tektono-Metamorfik Gelişimi: Lavrasya'nın Güney Kenarının Eklenmeli Mesozoyik Evrimine İlişkin Çıkarımlar 2021.
İTÜ-BAP, MYL-2021-42913. Bolu Masifi'nin Magmatik ve Metamorfik Evrimi (İstanbul Zonu, KB Türkiye) 2021-2022.
İTÜ-BAP, MDK-2021-43320. İstanbul Zonu'nun Ordovisiyen Öncesi Jeolojik Evrimi 2021-2025.
İTÜ-BAP, MGA-2021-43433. Kırşehir Masifi'nin Geç Kretase Öncesi Jeolojik Evrimi 2021-2024.
İTÜ-BAP, MYL-2019-42471. Batı Pontidler İstanbul Zonu Üst Kretase Stratigrafisi ve Magmatizması: Kandıra (Kocaeli) ve Civarının Jeolojisi 2019.
İTÜ-BAP, TYL-2019-42059. Batı Pontidlerde Üst Kretase Stratigrafisi ve Magmatizması: Limanköy (Kırklareli) ve Çevresinin Jeolojisi 2019-2022.
İTÜ-BAP, 31264. Trakya'da Kuzey Anadolu Fayı'nda Gözlenen Transpresyonun Kökeni 2018.
İTÜ-BAP, 37190. Avrasya'nın Güney Aktif Kıta Kenarında Orta Pontidler'de Kretase'de Sedimentasyon ve Orojenez 2018.
İTÜ-BAP, 38481. Türkiye'deki Jadeitli Kayalar ve Yeşim 2018.
İTÜ-BAP, 34299. Büyük Bir Yanal Atımlı Yırtılma Fayı Boyunca Oluşan Olistostrom Melanj Kuşağı: Bornova Fliş Zonu 2018.
İTÜ-BAP, 33461. Miyosen Arabistan-Avrasya Çarpışmasına Ait Apatit Fisyon İz Verileri 2018.
İTÜ-BAP, 39888. Türkiye ve Umman'da Pasif Kıta Kenarlarında Gelişen Yüksek Basınç-Düşük Sıcaklık Metamorfizması 2018.
İTÜ-BAP, 38132. Trakya'daki Kretase Yaşlı Melanj ve Mavişistlerin Paleotektonik Önemi 2018.
İTÜ-BAP, 30817. Pontidlerde Ofiyolitler ve Kenet Zonları 2018.
İTÜ-BAP, 34772. Çatalca Bölgesinde Istranca Masifi ile İstanbul Zonu Arasındaki Jeolojik İlişki 2018.
İTÜ-BAP, 36951. İstanbul Çavuşbaşı Granodiyoritinin Petrojenezi 2018.
İTÜ-BAP, 38750. Early to Late Carboniferous Granitic and Gabbroic Intrusions in the Eastern Pontides and Their Relations with the Variscan Orogeny in Central Europe 2018.
İTÜ-BAP, 37185. Jurassic Ophiolite Formation and Emplacement as Backstop to a Subduction-Accretion Complex in Northeast Turkey: The Refahiye Ophiolite and its Relation to the Balkan Ophiolites 2018.
İTÜ-BAP, 39240. East Anatolian Plateau Underlain Largely by a Continental Crust Rather than an Oceanic Accretionary Complex 2018.
İTÜ-BAP, 39282. Petrogenesis of the Sarıcakaya Granitic Rocks (N Eskişehir, Turkey) and Their Implication for the Pre-Liassic Evolution of the Sakarya Zone 2018.
İTÜ-BAP, 39066. Kırşehir Masifi'nin Basınç-Sıcaklık-Zaman-Bileşim (P-T-t-X) Gelişimi ve Mikrodoku Gelişiminde Kimyasal Difüzyonun Etkisi 2018.
İTÜ-BAP, TYL-2018-41712. Trakya Havzasında Oligosen Deformasyonu: Korudağ Antiklinalinin Yapısı ve Yaşı 2020.
İTÜ-BAP, 37264. Orta Pontidlerde Yer Alan Alt Kretase Flişinin Kökeni 2017.
İTÜ-BAP, MYL-2017-40870. Tokat Masifi Kuzeyinin (Taşova) Tektono-Metamorfik Evrimi 2019.
İTÜ-BAP, 34378. Orta Pontidlerin Kastamonu-Tosya Arasındaki Bölgesinin Tektonik Evrimi 2016.
İTÜ-BAP, 34289. Kurtoğlu Mavişist Fasiyesli Kayaçlarının (Gümüşhane, Doğu Pontidler) Jeolojik Evrimi ve Jeodinamik Önemleri 2015.
İTÜ-BAP, 32397. İstanbul ile Sakarya Zonları Arasındaki Pontid-içi Kenetlerin Adapazarı-Bursa Çevresindeki Evrimi 2013.
İTÜ-BAP, 32994. Mudanya-Zeytinbağı Bölgesinin Kretase-Tersiyer Jeolojik Evrimi 2013.
İTÜ-BAP, 31573. İstanbul ile Sakarya Zonları Arasındaki Pontid-içi Kenetlerin Adapazarı-Bursa Çevresindeki Evrimi 2009.
İTÜ-BAP, 32810. Kemer Metamorfitlerinin (Biga, Çanakkale) Jeolojik Evrimi ve Jeodinamik Önemleri 2009.
İTÜ-BAP. Orta Pontidlerde Kargı Masifi Sınırının Niteliği 2005.
İTÜ-BAP. Trakya'daki Ganos Dağı'nın İç Yapısı ve Jeolojik Evrimi 2005.

Yayınlar

Akdoğan, R., Hu, X., Topuz, G., Hakyemez, A., Catanzariti, R., Ma, A., Ersoy Y. E. & Uysal, İ., (2026). Late Campanian (74-71 Ma) Arabia–Eastern Anatolia Collision and Its Geodynamic Implications. Tectonics, 45(7), e2025TC009243. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025TC009243
Yılmazer, S., Topuz, G., Guillong, M., Okay, A. I., Demirkaya, İ., & Uzun, F. (2026). Reply to Comment on "Revealing the early geological history of the Istanbul Zone (Far-East Avalonia) through zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopic data." Precambrian Research, 432, Article 107963. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2025.107963>.
Akdoğan, R. (2026). Coesite: the indicator of deep-diving continents. *Nat. Geosci.* 19, 502. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-026-01966-7.
Mohamadi chaghamarani, Z., Amel, N., Topuz, G., Moayyed, M., Koroneos, A., Köksal, S., & Küçük, A. (2025). Middle-to-Late Eocene shoshonitic basaltic volcanism in NW Iran (Kivi region): implications for a buried Neo-Tethyan suture. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 114(7--8), 1191--1213. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-025-02540-z
Yılmazer, S., Topuz, G., Guillong, M., Okay, A. I., Demirkaya, İ., & Uzun, F. (2025). Revealing the early geological history of the Istanbul Zone (Far-East Avalonia) through zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopic data. Precambrian Research, 427, Article 107855. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2025.107855
Aydinçakir, E., Yücel, C., Kaygusuz, A., Bilici, Ö., Yilmazer, S., Ruffet, G., 2024. Eocene magmatism related to postcollisional extension in the Eastern Pontides (NE Türkiye): 40Ar-39Ar geochronology, geochemistry, and whole-rock Sr-Nd-Pb-Hf isotopes. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 33(5), 530-556.
Gün, E., Pysklywec, R. N., Topuz, G., Göğüş, O. H., & Heron, P. J. (2024). Syn-Drift Plate Tectonics. Geophysical Research Letters, 51(2), Article e2023GL105452. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105452
Karimi, H., Topuz, G., Ratschbacher, L., Shen, C., & Li, J. (2024). Geochemistry and geochronology of the Neyshabur meta-volcanic rocks, Binalood mountains, NE Iran: witnesses of Paleo-Tethys rifting and closure. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 113(2), 285--302. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-023-02371-w
Liu, T., Liu, C. Z., Wu, F. Y., Topuz, G., Wan, B., Wang, J. M., & Chen, G. (2024). Detachment Fault-Hosted Subduction Re-Initiation of the (Ultra)Slow-Spreading Western Neo-Tethys in the Jurassic. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 25(2), Article e2023GC011173. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GC011173
Marchev, P., Raicheva, R., Jicha, B., Guillong, M., Ivanova, R., Bachmann, O., Spikings, R., Okay, A., & Ozsvárt, P. (2024). The large Rupelian Rhodope Massif eruptions as the source of airfall tuffs in SE, S and Central Europe: 40Ar/39Ar and U--Pb age constraints. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 113(7), 1619--1641. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-024-02457-z
Moazzen, M., Mohammadi, A., Topuz, G., Mojdeh, P., & Zack, T. (2024). Detrital zircon and rutile geochronology, geochemistry and provenance of Cambrian sandstones of Iranian Azerbaijan: implications for the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian evolution of the northern Gondwana margin. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 113(2), 303--318. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-023-02372-9
Okay, A. I., Altıner, D., Özcan, E., & Hakyemez, A. (2024). Significance of the Paleocene olistostrome--turbidite belt (Abant Formation) along the Intra-Pontide Suture, northern Turkey. Journal of the Geological Society, 181(5), Article jgs2023-191. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2023-191
Sağlam, E., Duzman, T., Ay, C., Okay, A. I., Topuz, G., Sunal, G., Özcan, E., Altıner, D., Hakyemez, A., Wang, J. M., & Kylander-Clark, A. R. C. (2024). Late Cretaceous arc magmatism in the Western Pontides (Turkey)--temporal and chemical changes. International Geology Review, 66(4), 947--970. https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2023.2221982
Topuz, G., Candan, O., Laurent, O., Mohammadi, A., Okuyucu, C., Çelik, Ö. F., & Wang, J. M. (2024). Middle Devonian, late Carboniferous, and Triassic magmatic flare-ups in eastern Armorica (Sakarya Zone, Turkey) as revealed by detrital zircon U-Pb-Hf isotopic data. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 136(7--8), 3053--3068. https://doi.org/10.1130/B36950.1
Topuz, G., Yavuz, O., Candan, O., Zack, T., Özkan, M., & Siebel, W. (2024). Origin of late Carboniferous highly fractionated high-K calc-alkaline I-type granites from the eastern Pontides (Şiran, northern Turkey). International Geology Review, 66(14), 2560--2580. https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2023.2289041
Yılmazer, S., Topuz, G., Okay, A. I., & R. C. Kylander‐Clark, A. (2024). Late Neoproterozoic tholeiitic plutonism in far-east Avalonia (the Dirgine Batholith, Istanbul Zone): Exposed mid-crustal section of an oceanic arc. Precambrian Research, 410, Article 107475. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2024.107475
Babaoğlu, C., Topuz, G., Okay, A. I., Köksal, S., Wang, J. M., & Toksoy-Köksal, F. (2023). Middle Permian basic and acidic volcanism in the Istanbul zone (NW Turkey): evidence for post-variscan extensional magmatism. International Geology Review, 65(21), 3435--3452. https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2023.2188551
Okay, A. I., & Kylander‐Clark, A. R. C. (2023). No sediment transport across the Tethys ocean during the latest Cretaceous: detrital zircon record from the Pontides and the Anatolide--Tauride Block. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 112(3), 999--1022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-022-02275-1
Okay, A. I., Kylander-clark, A. R. C., & Sherlock, S. (2023). Almacık Complex---an exhumed lower to middle crust in northwest Anatolia. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 32(7), 833--853. https://doi.org/10.55730/1300-0985.1878
Okay, A. I., Özcan, E., Siyako, M., Bürkan, K. A., Kylander-Clark, A. R. C., Bidgood, M. D., Shaw, D., & Simmons, M. D. (2023). Thrace Basin---An Oligocene Clastic Basin Formed During the Exhumation of the Rhodope Complex. Tectonics, 42(10), Article e2023TC007766. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023TC007766
Topuz, G., Altherr, R., Candan, O., Wang, J. M., Okay, A. I., Wu, F. Y., Ergen, A., Zack, T., Siebel, W., Shangh, C. K., Schwarz, W. H., Meyer, H. P., & Satır, M. (2023). Carboniferous mafic-ultramafic intrusions in the Eastern Pontides (Pulur Complex): Implications for the source of coeval voluminous granites. Lithos, 436, Article 106946. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2022.106946
Whitney, D. L., Delph, J. R., Thomson, S. N., Beck, S. L., Brocard, G. Y., Cosca, M. A., Darin, M. H., Kaymakci, N., Meijers, M. J. M., Okay, A. I., Rojay, B., Teyssier, C., & Umhoefer, P. J. (2023). Breaking plates: Creation of the East Anatolian fault, the Anatolian plate, and a tectonic escape system. Geology, 51(7), 673--677. https://doi.org/10.1130/G51211.1
Yilmaz, A., Topuz, G., Eken, T., Candan, O., & Yilmaz, H. (2023). Geology of the Eastern Anatolian Plateau (Turkey): a synthesis. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 32(4), 2. https://doi.org/10.55730/1300-0985.1854
Yücel, A. O., Özcan, E., Catanzariti, R., Hakyemez, A., Okay, A. I., Çiner, A., & Akin, A. (2023). Calcareous nannofossils, planktonic foraminifera, and revised stratigraphy of the Eocene Çayraz Formation; the final stage of marine sedimentation in Central Anatolia, Turkey. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 32(1), 1--26. https://doi.org/10.55730/1300-0985.1825
Akdoğan, R., Dunkl, I., Okay, A. I., Hu, X., & Topuz, G. (2022). Records of latest Triassic, mid-Cretaceous and Cenozoic uplift/exhumation phases in the Istanbul zone revealed by apatite fission-track and (U-Th)/He thermochronology. International Geology Review, 64(3), 297--310. https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2020.1848648
Aygül, M., Okay, A. I., Hacker, B. R., & Kylander-Clark, A. R. C. (2022). REE behavior in warm and cold subducting oceanic crust. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 111(3), 905--918. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-021-02156-z
Gün, E., Pysklywec, R. N., Göğüş, O. H., & Topuz, G. (2022). Terrane geodynamics: Evolution on the subduction conveyor from pre-collision to post-collision and implications on Tethyan orogeny. Gondwana Research, 105, 399--415. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2021.09.018
Okay, A. I. (2022). Scientific Comment on McPhee et al "Preparing the ground for plateau growth: Late Neogene Central Anatolian uplift in the context of orogenic and geodynamic evolution since the Cretaceous", Tectonophysics 822 (2022), 229131. Tectonophysics, 836, Article 229406. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229406
Okay, A. I., Altlner, D., Danelian, T., Topuz, G., Özcan, E., & Kylander-Clark, A. R. C. (2022). Subduction-accretion complex with boninitic ophiolite slices and Triassic limestone seamounts: Ankara Mélange, central Anatolia. Geological Magazine, 159(10), 1699--1726. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756822000504
Okay, A. I., Topuz, G., Kylander-Clark, A. R. C., Sherlock, S., & Zattin, M. (2022). Late Paleocene -- Middle Eocene magmatic flare-up in western Anatolia. Lithos, 428, Article 106816. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2022.106816
Özcan, E., Yücel, A. O., Mitchell, S. F., Pignatti, J., Simmons, M. D., Okay, A. I., Erkizan, L. S., & Gültekin, M. N. (2022). New Records of Caudriella Haman And Huddleston From The Middle And Late Eocene Of Neo-Tethys: Taxonomic And Palaeobiogeographic Implications. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 52(1), 21--39. https://doi.org/10.2113/gsjfr.52.1.21
Özkan, M., Çelik, Ö. F., Çörtük, R. M., Topuz, G., Zack, T., & Çubukçu, E. (2022). Early--Middle Jurassic metamorphic and non-metamorphic supra-subduction zone ophiolite fragments in a Late Cretaceous ophiolitic mélange (northern Turkey): implications for long-lived and supra-subduction zone ophiolite formation. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 111(7), 2391--2408. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-022-02235-9
Topuz, G., Azizi, H., & Burg, J. P. (2022). Cadomian crustal evolution of Turkey, Iran, and environs. International Geology Review, 64(17), 2385--2388. https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2021.1941325
Akdoğan, R., Hu, X., Okay, A. I., Topuz, G., & Xue, W. (2021). Provenance of the Paleozoic to Mesozoic Siliciclastic Rocks of the Istanbul Zone Constrains the Timing of the Rheic Ocean Closure in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Tectonics, 40(12), Article e2021TC006824. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021TC006824
Choi, S., Fabbri, O., Topuz, G., Okay, A. I., & Jung, H. (2021). Twin induced reduction of seismic anisotropy in lawsonite blueschist. Minerals, 11(4), Article 399. https://doi.org/10.3390/min11040399
Erdem, M. E., Özcan, E., Yücel, A. O., Okay, A. I., Erbay, S., Kayğili, S., & Yilmaz, İ. (2021). Late campanian larger benthic foraminifera from the zekeriyaköy formation (İstanbul, nw turkey): Taxonomy, stratigraphy, and paleogeography. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 30(1), 1--21. https://doi.org/10.3906/yer-2007-9
Gün, E., Pysklywec, R. N., Göğüş, O. H., & Topuz, G. (2021). Pre-collisional extension of microcontinental terranes by a subduction pulley. Nature Geoscience, 14(6), 443--450. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00746-9
Özcan, E., Yücel, A. O., Catanzariti, R., Kayğılı, S., Okay, A. I., Simmons, M. D., Pignatti, J., Abbasi, İ. A., & Erbil, Ü. (2021). Multiple Orbitoides d'Orbigny lineages in the Maastrichtian? Data from the Central Sakarya Basin (Turkey) and Arabian Platform successions (Southeastern Turkey and Oman). Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 140(1), Article 8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-021-00219-x
Topuz, G., Candan, O., Wang, J. M., Li, Q. L., Wu, F. Y., & Yılmaz, A. (2021). Silurian A-type metaquartz-syenite to -granite in the Eastern Anatolia: Implications for Late Ordovician-Silurian rifting at the northern margin of Gondwana. Gondwana Research, 91, 1--17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.12.005
Uysal, I., Ersoy, E. Y., & Okay, A. I. (2021). Magmatic evolution and crustal growth of the Mediterranean region: New geochemical and geochronological perspectives. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 213, Article 104769. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2021.104769
Erbil, Ü., Okay, A. I., & Hakyemez, A. (2021). Late Oligocene---Early Miocene shortening in the Thrace Basin, northern Aegean. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 110(6), 1921--1936. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-021-02047-3
Hegner, E., Alexeiev, D. v., Willbold, M., Kröner, A., Topuz, G., & Mikolaichuk, A. v. (2020). Early Silurian tholeiitic-boninitic Mailisu ophiolite, South Tianshan, Kyrgyzstan: a geochemical record of subduction initiation. International Geology Review, 62(3), 320--337. https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2019.1610670
Memiş, C., Göğüş, O. H., Uluocak, E. Ş., Pysklywec, R., Keskin, M., Şengör, A. M. C., & Topuz, G. (2020). Long Wavelength Progressive Plateau Uplift in Eastern Anatolia Since 20 Ma: Implications for the Role of Slab Peel-Back and Break-Off. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 21(2), Article e2019GC008726. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019GC008726
Okay, A. I., Atakul-özdemir, A., & Okay, N. (2020). A pelagic upper devonian sequence in Sarıyer, İstanbul. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 29(5), 785--797. https://doi.org/10.3906/yer-2001-25
Okay, A. I., Simmons, M. D., Özcan, E., Starkie, S., Bidgood, M. D., & Kylander-Clark, A. R. C. (2020). Eocene-oligocene succession at kıyıköy (Midye) on the black sea coast in thrace. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 29(SI-1), 139--153. https://doi.org/10.3906/yer-1907-5
Okay, A. I., Sunal, G., Sherlock, S., Kylander-Clark, A. R. C., & Özcan, E. (2020). İzmir-Ankara Suture as a Triassic to Cretaceous Plate Boundary---Data From Central Anatolia. Tectonics, 39(5), Article e2019TC005849. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019TC005849
Okay, A. I., Zattin, M., Özcan, E., & Sunal, G. (2020). Uplift of anatoli. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 29(5), 696--713. https://doi.org/10.3906/yer-2003-10
Özcan, E., Hakyemez, A., Çiner, A., Okay, A. I., Soussi, M., Boukhalfa, K., & Osman Yücel, A. (2020). Reassessment of the age and depositional environments of the Eocene Çayraz Formation, a reference unit for Tethyan larger benthic foraminifera (Haymana Basin, central Turkey). Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 193, Article 104304. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2020.104304
Özcan, E., Özcan, Z., Okay, A. I., Akbayram, K., & Hakyemez, A. (2020). The ypresian to lutetian marine record in NW Turkey: A revised biostratigraphy and chronostratigraphy and implications for eocene paleogeography. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 29(SI-1), 1--27. https://doi.org/10.3906/yer-1903-3
Rolland, Y., Hässig, M., Bosch, D., Bruguier, O., Melis, R., Galoyan, G., Topuz, G., Sahakyan, L., Avagyan, A., & Sosson, M. (2020). The East Anatolia--Lesser Caucasus ophiolite: An exceptional case of large-scale obduction, synthesis of data and numerical modelling. Geoscience Frontiers, 11(1), 83--108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gsf.2018.12.009
Simmons, M. D., Bidgood, M. D., Connell, P. G., Ćorić, S., Okay, A. I., Shaw, D., Tulan, E., Mayer, J., & Tari, G. C. (2020). Biostratigraphy and paleoenvironments of the oligocene succession (İhsaniye formation) at Karaburun (NW Turkey). Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 29(SI-1), 28--63. https://doi.org/10.3906/yer-1907-7
Topuz, G., Candan, O., Okay, A. I., von Quadt, A., Othman, M., Zack, T., & Wang, J. (2020). Silurian anorogenic basic and acidic magmatism in Northwest Turkey: Implications for the opening of the Paleo-Tethys. Lithos, 356, Article 105302. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105302
Whitney, D. L., Fornash, K. F., Kang, P., Ghent, E. D., Martin, L., Okay, A. I., & Vitale Brovarone, A. (2020). Lawsonite composition and zoning as tracers of subduction processes: A global review. Lithos, 370, Article 105636. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105636
Akdoğan, R., Okay, A. I., & Dunkl, I. (2019). Striking Variation in the Provenance of the Lower and Upper Cretaceous Turbidites in the Central Pontides (Northern Turkey) Related to the Opening of the Black Sea. Tectonics, 38(3), 1050--1069. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018TC005119
Azizi, H., Stern, R. J., Topuz, G., Asahara, Y., & Moghadam, H. S. (2019). Late Paleocene adakitic granitoid from NW Iran and comparison with adakites in the NE Turkey: Adakitic melt generation in normal continental crust. Lithos, 346, Article 105151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105151
Çelik, Ö. F., Topuz, G., Billor, Z., & Özkan, M. (2019). Middle Jurassic subduction-related ophiolite fragment in Triassic accretionary complex (Mamu Dağı ophiolite, Northern Turkey). International Geology Review, 61(16), 2021--2035. https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2019.1578109
Çoban, H., Topuz, G., Roden, M. F., Hoang, N., & Schwarz, W. H. (2019). 40 Ar- 39 Ar dating and petrology of monzonite ejecta in tephra from Quaternary Gölcük volcano (Isparta, SW Turkey): tear-related contrasting metasomatic symptoms in extensional mantle-derived magmas. Lithos, 330, 160--176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.02.006
Gülmez, F., Damci, E., Ülgen, U. B., & Okay, A. (2019). Deep structure of central menderes massif: Data from deep geothermal wells. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 28(4), 531--543. https://doi.org/10.3906/yer-1903-16
Okay, A. I., Altıner, D., & Kylander-Clark, A. R. C. (2019). Major Late Cretaceous Mass Flows in Central Turkey Recording the Disruption of the Mesozoic Continental Margin. Tectonics, 38(3), 960--989. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018TC005076
Okay, A. I., Özcan, E., Hakyemez, A., Siyako, M., Sunal, G., & Kylander-Clark, A. R. C. (2019). The Thrace Basin and the Black Sea: The eocene-oligocene marine connection. Geological Magazine, 156(1), 39--61. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756817000772
Özcan, E., van Gorsel, J. T., Sarı, B., Yücel, A. O., Erbay, S., & Okay, A. I. (2019). Primitive Helicorbitoides (Foraminifera) and associated larger benthic foraminifera from the Campanian Tonya Formation, Trabzon, eastern Pontides, NE Turkey. Cretaceous Research, 101, 30--42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2019.04.006
Sunal, G., Erturaç, M. K., Topuz, G., Okay, A. I., & Zack, T. (2019). The early eocene ekmekçi granodiorite porphyry in the karacabey region (Sakarya zone, NW Turkey). Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 28(4), 589--602. https://doi.org/10.3906/yer-1811-5
Topuz, G., Candan, O., Zack, T., Chen, F., & Li, Q. L. (2019). Origin and significance of Early Miocene high‑potassium I-type granite plutonism in the East Anatolian plateau (the Taşlıçay intrusion). Lithos, 348, Article 105210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2019.105210
Akdoğan, R., Okay, A. I., & Dunkl, I. (2018). Triassic-Jurassic arc magmatism in the pontides as revealed by the U-Pb detrital zircon ages in the Jurassic sandstones of northeastern Turkey. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 27(2), 89--109. https://doi.org/10.3906/yer-1706-19
Atasoy, S. G., Altiner, D., & Okay, A. I. (2018). Reconstruction of a Late Jurassic--Early Cretaceous carbonate platform margin with composite biostratigraphy and microfacies analysis (western Sakarya Zone, Turkey): Paleogeographic and tectonic implications. Cretaceous Research, 92, 66--93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2018.07.009
Bodur, Ö. F., Göğüş, O. H., Pysklywec, R. N., & Okay, A. I. (2018). Mantle Lithosphere Rheology, Vertical Tectonics, and the Exhumation of (U)HP Rocks. Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, 123(2), 1824--1839. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JB014546
Cattò, S., Cavazza, W., Zattin, M., & Okay, A. I. (2018). No significant Alpine tectonic overprint on the Cimmerian Strandja Massif (SE Bulgaria and NW Turkey). International Geology Review, 60(4), 513--529. https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2017.1350604
Cavazza, W., Cattò, S., Zattin, M., Okay, A. I., & Reiners, P. (2018). Thermochronology of the Miocene Arabia-Eurasia collision zone of southeastern Turkey. Geosphere, 14(5), 2277--2293. https://doi.org/10.1130/GES01637.1
Çelik, Ö. F., Özkan, M., Chelle-Michou, C., Sherlock, S., Marzoli, A., Ulianov, A., Altıntaş, I. E., & Topuz, G. (2018). Blueschist facies overprint of late triassic tethyan oceanic crust in a subduction--accretion complex in north-central anatolia, Turkey. Journal of the Geological Society, 176(5), 945--957. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2018-045
Okay, A. I., Altiner, D., Sunal, G., Aygül, M., Akdoğan, R., Altiner, S., & Simmons, M. (2018). Geological evolution of the Central Pontides. Geological Society Special Publication, 464(1), 33--67. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP464.3
Özcan, E., Okay, A. I., Bürkan, K. A., Yücel, A. O., & Özcan, Z. (2018). Middle-late eocene marine record of the Biga Peninsula, NW Anatolia, Turkey. Geologica Acta, 16(2), 163--187. https://doi.org/10.1344/GeologicaActa2018.16.2.4
Simmons, M. D., Tari, G. C., & Okay, A. I. (2018). Petroleum geology of the Black Sea: Introduction. Geological Society Special Publication, 464(1), 1--18. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP464.15
Topuz, G., Hegner, E., Homam, S. M., Ackerman, L., Pfänder, J. A., & Karimi, H. (2018). Geochemical and geochronological evidence for a Middle Permian oceanic plateau fragment in the Paleo-Tethyan suture zone of NE Iran. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 173(10), Article 81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-018-1506-x
Topuz, G., Okay, A. I., Schwarz, W. H., Sunal, G., Altherr, R., & Kylander-Clark, A. R. C. (2018). A middle Permian ophiolite fragment in Late Triassic greenschist- to blueschist-facies rocks in NW Turkey: An earlier pulse of suprasubduction-zone ophiolite formation in the Tethyan belt. Lithos, 300, 121--135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2017.12.005
Vincent, S. J., Saintot, A., Mosar, J., Okay, A. I., & Nikishin, A. M. (2018). Comment on "Relict Basin Closure and Crustal Shortening Budgets During Continental Collision: An Example From Caucasus Sediment Provenance" by Cowgill et al. (2016). Tectonics, 37(3), 1006--1016. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017TC004515
Akdoğan, R., Okay, A. I., Sunal, G., Tari, G., Meinhold, G., & Kylander-Clark, A. R. C. (2017). Provenance of a large Lower Cretaceous turbidite submarine fan complex on the active Laurasian margin: Central Pontides, northern Turkey. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 134, 309--329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.11.028
Okay, A. I., & Topuz, G. (2017). Variscan orogeny in the Black Sea region. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 106(2), 569--592. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-016-1395-z
Şengün, F., Zack, T., & Topuz, G. (2017). Rutile geochemistry and thermometry of eclogites and associated garnet-mica schists in the Biga Peninsula, NW Turkey. Chemie Der Erde, 77(3), 503--515. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemer.2017.07.001
Topuz, G., & Okay, A. I. (2017). Late Eocene--Early Oligocene two-mica granites in NW Turkey (the Uludağ Massif): Water-fluxed melting products of a mafic metagreywacke. Lithos, 268, 334--350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2016.11.010
Topuz, G., Candan, O., Zack, T., & Yilmaz, A. (2017). East Anatolian plateau constructed over a continental basement: No evidence for the East Anatolian accretionary complex. Geology, 45(9), 791--794. https://doi.org/10.1130/G39111.1
Akbayram, K., Sorlien, C. C., & Okay, A. I. (2016). Evidence for a minimum 52 ± 1 km of total offset along the northern branch of the North Anatolian Fault in northwest Turkey. Tectonophysics, 668, 35--41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2015.11.026
Aygül, M., Okay, A. I., Oberhänsli, R., & Sudo, M. (2016). Pre-collisional accretionary growth of the southern Laurasian active margin, Central Pontides, Turkey. Tectonophysics, 671, 218--234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.01.010
Candan, O., Akal, C., Koralay, O. E., Okay, A. I., Oberhänsli, R., Prelević, D., & Mertz-Kraus, R. (2016). Carboniferous granites on the northern margin of Gondwana, Anatolide-Tauride Block, Turkey -- Evidence for southward subduction of Paleotethys. Tectonophysics, 683, 349--366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.06.030
Candan, O., Koralay, O. E., Topuz, G., Oberhänsli, R., Fritz, H., Collins, A. S., & Chen, F. (2016). Late Neoproterozoic gabbro emplacement followed by early Cambrian eclogite-facies metamorphism in the Menderes Massif (W. Turkey): Implications on the final assembly of Gondwana. Gondwana Research, 34, 158--173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2015.02.015
Çelik, Ö. F., Chiaradia, M., Marzoli, A., Özkan, M., Billor, Z., & Topuz, G. (2016). Jurassic metabasic rocks in the Kizilirmak accretionary complex (Kargi region, Central Pontides, Northern Turkey). Tectonophysics, 672, 34--49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2016.01.043
Çetinkaplan, M., Pourteau, A., Candan, O., Koralay, O. E., Oberhänsli, R., Okay, A. I., Chen, F., Kozlu, H., & Şengün, F. (2016). P--T--t evolution of eclogite/blueschist facies metamorphism in Alanya Massif: time and space relations with HP event in Bitlis Massif, Turkey. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 105(1), 247--281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-014-1092-8
Çörtük, R. M., Çelik, Ö. F., Özkan, M., Sherlock, S. C., Marzoli, A., Altıntaş, İ. E., & Topuz, G. (2016). Origin and geodynamic environments of the metamorphic sole rocks from the İzmir--Ankara--Erzincan suture zone (Tokat, northern Turkey). International Geology Review, 58(15), 1839--1855. https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2016.1181991
Okay, A. I., & Altiner, D. (2016). Carbonate sedimentation in an extensional active margin: Cretaceous history of the Haymana region, Pontides. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 105(7), 2013--2030. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-016-1313-4
Pagé, L., Hattori, K., de Hoog, J. C. M., & Okay, A. I. (2016). Halogen (F, Cl, Br, I) behaviour in subducting slabs: A study of lawsonite blueschists in western Turkey. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 442, 133--142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2016.02.054
Plunder, A., Agard, P., Chopin, C., Soret, M., Okay, A. I., & Whitechurch, H. (2016). Metamorphic sole formation, emplacement and blueschist facies overprint: early subduction dynamics witnessed by western Turkey ophiolites. Terra Nova, 28(5), 329--339. https://doi.org/10.1111/ter.12225
Aygül, M., Okay, A. I., Oberhänsli, R., & Ziemann, M. A. (2015). Thermal structure of low-grade accreted lower cretaceous distal turbidites, the Central Pontides, Turkey: Insights for tectonic thickening of an accretionary wedge. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 24(5), 461--474. https://doi.org/10.3906/yer-1504-4
Aygül, M., Okay, A. I., Oberhänsli, R., Schmidt, A., & Sudo, M. (2015). Late Cretaceous infant intra-oceanic arc volcanism, the Central Pontides, Turkey: Petrogenetic and tectonic implications. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 111, 312--327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.07.005
Nikishin, A. M., Okay, A. I., Tüysüz, O., Demirer, A., Amelin, N., & Petrov, E. (2015). The Black Sea basins structure and history: New model based on new deep penetration regional seismic data. Part 1: Basins structure and fill. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 59, 638--655. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2014.08.017
Nikishin, A. M., Okay, A., Tüysüz, O., Demirer, A., Wannier, M., Amelin, N., & Petrov, E. (2015). The Black Sea basins structure and history: New model based on new deep penetration regional seismic data. Part 2: Tectonic history and paleogeography. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 59, 656--670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2014.08.018
Okay, A. I., & Nikishin, A. M. (2015). Tectonic evolution of the southern margin of Laurasia in the Black Sea region. International Geology Review, 57(5--8), 1051--1076. https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2015.1010609
Okay, A. I., Altiner, D., & Kiliç, A. M. (2015). Triassic limestone, turbidites and serpentinite - The Cimmeride orogeny in the Central Pontides. Geological Magazine, 152(3), 460--479. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756814000429
Plunder, A., Agard, P., Chopin, C., Pourteau, A., & Okay, A. I. (2015). Accretion, underplating and exhumation along a subduction interface: From subduction initiation to continental subduction (Tavşanli zone, W. Turkey). Lithos, 226, 233--254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2015.01.007
Albino, I., Cavazza, W., Zattin, M., Okay, A. I., Adamia, S., & Sadradze, N. (2014). Far-Field tectonic effects of the arabia-Eurasia collision and the inception of the north anatolian fault system. Geological Magazine, 151(2), 372--379. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756813000952
Okay, A. I., Sunal, G., Tüysüz, O., Sherlock, S., Keskin, M., & Kylander-Clark, A. R. C. (2014). Low-pressure-high-temperature metamorphism during extension in a Jurassic magmatic arc, Central Pontides, Turkey. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 32(1), 49--69. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12058
Topuz, G., & Okay, A. I. (2014). Prograde calcite to aragonite transformation in the Gümüşyeniköy micritic limestones (Tavşanlı, NW Turkey). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 103(8), 2271--2272. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-014-1049-y
Topuz, G., Okay, A. I., Altherr, R., Schwarz, W. H., Sunal, G., & Altinkaynak, L. (2014). Triassic warm subduction in northeast Turkey: Evidence from the Aǧvanis metamorphic rocks. Island Arc, 23(3), 181--205. https://doi.org/10.1111/iar.12068
Akbayram, K., Okay, A. I., & Satir, M. (2013). Early Cretaceous closure of the Intra-Pontide Ocean in western Pontides (northwestern Turkey). Journal of Geodynamics, 65, 38--55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jog.2012.05.003
Göçmengil, G., Altintaş, I. E., Topuz, G., Çelik, Ö. F., & Özkan, M. (2013). Diverse tectonic settings of formation of the metaigneous rocks in the Jurassic metamorphic accretionary complexes (Refahiye, NE Turkey) and their geodynamic implications. Geodinamica Acta, 26(3--4), 294--310. https://doi.org/10.1080/09853111.2013.858946
Hässig, M., Rolland, Y., Sosson, M., Galoyan, G., Sahakyan, L., Topuz, G., Çelik, Ö. F., Avagyan, A., & Müller, C. (2013). Linking the NE Anatolian and Lesser Caucasus ophiolites: Evidence for large-scale obduction of oceanic crust and implications for the formation of the Lesser Caucasus-Pontides Arc. Geodinamica Acta, 26(3--4), 311--330. https://doi.org/10.1080/09853111.2013.877236
Jolivet, L., Faccenna, C., Huet, B., Labrousse, L., le Pourhiet, L., Lacombe, O., Lecomte, E., Burov, E., Denèle, Y., Brun, J. P., Philippon, M., Paul, A., Salaün, G., Karabulut, H., Piromallo, C., Monié, P., Gueydan, F., Okay, A. I., Oberhänsli, R., ... Driussi, O. (2013). Aegean tectonics: Strain localisation, slab tearing and trench retreat. Tectonophysics, 597, 1--33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2012.06.011
Karaoǧlan, F., Parlak, O., Robertson, A., Thöni, M., Klötzli, U., Koller, F., & Okay, A. I. (2013). Evidence of eocene high-temperature/high-pressure metamorphism of ophiolitic rocks and granitoid intrusion related to neotethyan subduction processes (DoǧanŞehir area, SE Anatolia). Geological Society Special Publication, 372(1), 249--272. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP372.21
Okay, A. I., Sunal, G., Sherlock, S., Altiner, D., Tüysüz, O., Kylander-Clark, A. R. C., & Aygül, M. (2013). Early Cretaceous sedimentation and orogeny on the active margin of Eurasia: Southern Central Pontides, Turkey. Tectonics, 32(5), 1247--1271. https://doi.org/10.1002/tect.20077
Plunder, A., Agard, P., Chopin, C., & Okay, A. I. (2013). Geodynamics of the Tavşanlı zone, western Turkey: Insights into subduction/obduction processes. Tectonophysics, 608, 884--903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2013.07.028
Topuz, G., Çelik, Ö. F., Şengör, A. M. C., Altintaş, I. E., Zack, T., Rolland, Y., & Barth, M. (2013). Jurassic ophiolite formation and emplacement as backstop to a subduction-accretion complex in northeast Turkey, the refahiye ophiolite, and relation to the Balkan ophiolites. American Journal of Science, 313(10), 1054--1087. https://doi.org/10.2475/10.2013.04
Topuz, G., Göçmengil, G., Rolland, Y., Faruk Çelik, O., Zack, T., & Schmitt, A. K. (2013). Jurassic accretionary complex and ophiolite from northeast Turkey: No evidence for the Cimmerian continental ribbon. Geology, 41(2), 255--258. https://doi.org/10.1130/G33577.1
Aygül, M., Topuz, G. I., Okay, A. I., Satir, M., & Meyer, H. P. (2012). The Kemer Metamorphic Complex (NW Turkey): A subducted continental margin of the Sakarya Zone | Sakarya Zonu'nun Yitime Uǧramış Kıta Kenarı: Kemer Metamorfik Karmaşıǧı (KB Türkiye). Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 21(1), 19--35. https://doi.org/10.3906/yer-1006-14
Cavazza, W., Federici, I., Okay, A. I., & Zattin, M. (2012). Apatite fission-track thermochronology of the Western Pontides (NW Turkey). Geological Magazine, 149(1), 133--140. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756811000525
D'Atri, A., Zuffa, G. G., Cavazza, W., Okay, A. I., & di Vincenzo, G. (2012). Detrital supply from subduction/accretion complexes to the Eocene-Oligocene post-collisional southern Thrace Basin (NW Turkey and NE Greece). Sedimentary Geology, 243, 117--129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2011.10.008
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Özcthan, Z., Okay, A. I., Özcan, E., Hakyemez, A., & Özkan-Altiner, S. (2012). Late cretaceous-eocene geological evolution of the pontides based on new stratigraphic and palaeontologic data between the black sea coast and bursa (NW Turkey) | Yeni stratigrafik ve paleontolojik veriler işıǧında pontidler'in karadeniz sahil şeridi ile.... Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 21(6), 933--960. https://doi.org/10.3906/yer-1102-8
Less, G., Özcan, E., & Okay, A. I. (2011). Stratigraphy and larger foraminifera of the middle eocene to lower oligocene shallow-marine units in the northern and eastern parts of the trace basin, NW Turkey | Trakya havzasının kuzey ve doǧusundaki (kb türkiye) orta eosen-alt oligosen sıǧ-denizel bi.... Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 20(6), 793--845. https://doi.org/10.3906/yer-1010-53
Okay, A. I., Noble, P. J., & Tekin, U. K. (2011). Devonian radiolarian ribbon cherts from the Karakaya Complex, Northwest Turkey: Implications for the Paleo-Tethyan evolution | Cherts rubanés à radiolaires du Dévonien du complexe de Karakaya, Turquie nord-occidentale: implications pour l'évolution de la.... Comptes Rendus Palevol, 10(1), 1--10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2010.12.002
Okay, N., Zack, T., Okay, A. I., & Barth, M. (2011). Sinistral transport along the Trans-European Suture Zone: Detrital zircon-rutile geochronology and sandstone petrography from the Carboniferous flysch of the Pontides. Geological Magazine, 148(3), 380--403. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756810000804
Sunal, G., Satir, M., Natal'in, B. A., Topuz, G., & Vonderschmidt, O. (2011). Metamorphism and diachronous cooling in a contractional orogen: The Strandja Massif, NW Turkey. Geological Magazine, 148(4), 580--596. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756810001020
Topuz, G., Okay, A. I., Altherr, R., Schwarz, W. H., Siebel, W., Zack, T., Satir, M., & Sen, C. (2011). Post-collisional adakite-like magmatism in the Agvanis Massif and implications for the evolution of the Eocene magmatism in the Eastern Pontides (NE Turkey). Lithos, 125(1--2), 131--150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2011.02.003
Federici, I., Cavazza, W., Okay, A. I., Beyssac, O., Zattin, M., Corrado, S., & Dellisanti, F. (2010). Termal evolution of the Permo-Triassic Karakaya subduction-accretion complex between the Biga Peninsula and the Tokat Massif (Anatolia) | Biga yarımadası ile Tokat Masifi Arasında Permo-Triyas yaşlı Karakaya dalma-batma-eklenme kompleksinin termal evrimi. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 19(4), 409--429. https://doi.org/10.3906/yer-0910-39
Oberhänsli, R., Candan, O., Bousquet, R., Rimmele, G., Okay, A., & Goff, J. (2010). Alpine high pressure evolution of the eastern Bitlis complex, SE Turkey. Geological Society Special Publication, 340, 461--483. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP340.20
Okay, A. I., & Whitney, D. L. (2010). Blueschists, eclogites, ophiolites and suture zones in northwest turkey: A review and a field excursion guide. Ofioliti, 35(2), 131--172.
Okay, A. I., Özcan, E., Cavazza, W., Okay, N., & Less, G. (2010). Basement types, lower eocene series, upper eocene olistostromes and the initiation of the Southern Thrace Basin, NW Turkey | Güney trakya havzasında temel tipleri, alt eosen serisi, üst eosen olistostromları ve havza oluşumu. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 19(1), 1--25. https://doi.org/10.3906/yer-0902-10
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Özcan, E., Less, G., Okay, A. I., Báldi-Beke, M., Kollányi, K., & Ömer Yilmaz, I. (2010). Stratigraphy and larger foraminifera of the eocene shallow-marine and olistostromal units of the Southern Part of the Thrace Basin, NW Turkey | Trakya havzası güneyi eosen sıǧ-denizel ve olistostromal birimlerinin stratigrafisi ve bentik foraminiferleri .... Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 19(1), 27--77. https://doi.org/10.3906/yer-0902-11
Topuz, G., Altherr, R., Siebel, W., Schwarz, W. H., Zack, T., Hasözbek, A., Barth, M., Satir, M., & Şen, C. (2010). Carboniferous high-potassium I-type granitoid magmatism in the Eastern Pontides: The Gümüşhane pluton (NE Turkey). Lithos, 116(1--2), 92--110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2010.01.003
Zattin, M., Cavazza, W., Okay, A. I., Federici, I., Fellin, M. G., Pignalosa, A., & Reiners, P. (2010). A precursor of the North Anatolian Fault in the Marmara Sea region. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 39(3), 97--108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2010.02.014
Cavazza, W., Okay, A. I., & Zattin, M. (2009). Rapid early-middle Miocene exhumation of the Kazdaǧ Massif (western Anatolia). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 98(8), 1935--1947. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-008-0353-9
Demirel, S., Göncüoǧlu, M. C., Topuz, G., & Isik, V. (2009). Geology and chemical variations in tourmaline from the quartz-tourmaline breccias within the Kerkenez granite-monzonite massif, Central Anatolian Crystalline Complex, Turkey. Canadian Mineralogist, 47(4), 787--799. https://doi.org/10.3749/canmin.47.4.787
Janssen, C., Bohnhoff, M., Vapnik, Y., Görgün, E., Bulut, F., Plessen, B., Pohl, D., Aktar, M., Okay, A. I., & Dresen, G. (2009). Tectonic evolution of the Ganos segment of the North Anatolian Fault (NW Turkey). Journal of Structural Geology, 31(1), 11--28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2008.09.010
Altherr, R., Topuz, G., Siebel, W., Şen, C., Meyer, H. P., Satir, M., & Lahaye, Y. (2008). Geochemical and Sr-Nd-Pb isotopic characteristics of Paleocene plagioleucitites from the Eastern Pontides (NE Turkey). Lithos, 105(1--2), 149--161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2008.03.001
Gokceoglu, C., Okay, A. I., & Sezer, E. (2008). International earth science literature from Turkey - 1970-2005: Trends and possible causes. Scientometrics, 74(3), 409--423. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-007-1813-x
Okay, A. I., Bozkurt, E., Satir, M., Yiǧitbaş, E., Crowley, Q. G., & Shang, C. K. (2008). Defining the southern margin of Avalonia in the Pontides: Geochronological data from the Late Proterozoic and Ordovician granitoids from NW Turkey. Tectonophysics, 461(1--4), 252--264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2008.02.004
Okay, A. I., Satir, M., & Shang, C. K. (2008). Ordovician metagranitoid from the Anatolide-Tauride Block, northwest Turkey: Geodynamic implications. Terra Nova, 20(4), 280--288. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00818.x
Okay, A. I., Satir, M., Zattin, M., Cavazza, W., & Topuz, G. (2008). An Oligocene ductile strike-slip shear zone: The Uludaǧ Massif, northwest Turkey - Implications for the westward translation of Anatolia. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 120(7--8), 893--911. https://doi.org/10.1130/B26229.1
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Okay, A. I., & Altiner, D. (2007). A condensed mesozoic succession North of İzmir: A fragment of the anatolide-tauride platform in the Bornova Flysch Zone. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 16(3), 257--279.
Topuz, G., Altherr, R., Schwarz, W. H., Dokuz, A., & Meyer, H. P. (2007). Variscan amphibolite-facies rocks from the Kurtoǧlu metamorphic complex (Gümüşhane area, Eastern Pontides, Turkey). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 96(5), 861--873. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-006-0138-y
Monod, O., Kuzucuoǧlu, C., & Okay, A. I. (2006). A miocene palaeovalley network in the western Taurus (Turkey). Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 15(1), 1--23.
Okay, A. I., Satir, M., & Siebel, W. (2006). Pre-Alpide Palaeozoic and Mesozoic orogenic events in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Geological Society Memoir, 32, 389--405. https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.MEM.2006.032.01.23
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Topuz, G., & Okay, A. I. (2006). Comment on petrography and petrology of the calc-alkaline Sarihan granitoid (NE Turkey): An example of magma mingling and mixing. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 15(3), 373--377.
Topuz, G., Okay, A. I., Altherr, R., Meyer, H. P., & Nasdala, L. (2006). Partial high-pressure aragonitization of micritic limestones in an accretionary complex, Tavşanli Zone, NW Turkey. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 24(7), 603--613. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1314.2006.00657.x
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