ALBERT

Description / Table of Contents: This wide area of the Alpine-Himalayan belt evolved through a series of tectonic events related to the opening and closure of the Tethys Ocean. In doing so it produced the largest mountain belt of the world, which extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. The basins associated with this belt contain invaluable information related to mountain building processes and are the locus of rich hydrocarbon accumulations. However, knowledge about the geological evolution of the region is limited compared to what they offer. This has been mainly due to the difficulty and inaccessibility of cross-country studies. This Special Publication is dedicated to the part of the Alpine Himalayan belt running from Bulgaria to Armenia, and from Ukraine to the Arabian Platform. It includes twenty multidisciplinary studies covering topics in structural geology/tectonics; geophysics; geochemistry; palaeontology; petrography; sedimentology; stratigraphy; and subsidence and lithospheric modelling. This volume reports results obtained during the MEBE (Middle East Basin Evolution) Programme and related projects in the circum Black Sea and peri-Arabian regions.

Description / Table of Contents: This wide area of the Alpine–Himalayan belt evolved through a series of tectonic events related to the opening and closure of the Tethys Ocean. In doing so it produced the largest mountain belt of the world, which extends from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. The basins associated with this belt contain invaluable information related to mountain building processes and are the locus of rich hydrocarbon accumulations. However, knowledge about the geological evolution of the region is limited compared to what they offer. This has been mainly due to the difficulty and inaccessibility of cross-country studies. This Special Publication is dedicated to the part of the Alpine–Himalayan belt running from Bulgaria to Armenia, and from Ukraine to the Arabian Platform. It includes twenty multidisciplinary studies covering topics in structural geology/tectonics; geophysics; geochemistry; palaeontology; petrography; sedimentology; stratigraphy; and subsidence and lithospheric modelling. This volume reports results obtained during the MEBE (Middle East Basin Evolution) Programme and related projects in the circum Black Sea and peri-Arabian regions.

Description / Table of Contents: Tectonic Evolution of the Eastern Black Sea and Caucasus: an introduction / Marc Sosson, Randell Stephenson and Shota Adamia / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 1-9, 9 June 2017, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.16 --- The ‘Caucasus’ domain --- Tectonic setting of Georgia–Eastern Black Sea: a review / S. A. Adamia, T. G. Chkhotua, T. T. Gavtadze, Z. A. Lebanidze, N. D. Lursmanashvili, N. G. Sadradze, D. P. Zakaraia and G. S. Zakariadze / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 11-40, 4 November 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.6 --- From seafloor spreading to obduction: Jurassic–Cretaceous evolution of the northern branch of the Neotethys in the Northeastern Anatolian and Lesser Caucasus regions / M. Hässig, Y. Rolland and M. Sosson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 41-60, 23 December 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.10 --- Radiolarian evidence for the age of chert blocks from the Upper Cretaceous ophiolitic mélange unit of the Erakh area, Armenia / T. Danelian, G. Asatryan, L. Sahakyan, A. Avagyan and G. Galoyan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 61-72, 14 December 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.7 --- Geochemistry of the Eocene magmatic rocks from the Lesser Caucasus area (Armenia): evidence of a subduction geodynamic environment / L. Sahakyan, D. Bosch, M. Sosson, A. Avagyan, Gh. Galoyan, Y. Rolland, O. Bruguier, Zh. Stepanyan, B. Galland and S. Vardanyan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 73-98, 3 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.12 --- New data on the tectonic evolution of the Khoy region, NW Iran / Ara Avagyan, Alireza Shahidi, Marc Sosson, Lilit Sahakyan, Ghazar Galoyan, Carla Muller, Sargis Vardanyan, Khalil Bahar Firouzi, Delphine Bosch, Taniel Danelian, Gayane Asatryan, Mushegh Mkrtchyan and Mohammad Ali Shokri / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 99-116, 7 April 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.13 --- Progressive orocline formation in the Eastern Pontides–Lesser Caucasus / Maud J. M. Meijers, Brigitte Smith, Daniel Pastor-Galán, Renzo Degenaar, Nino Sadradze, Shota Adamia, Lilit Sahakyan, Ara Avagyan, Marc Sosson, Yann Rolland, Cor G. Langereis and Carla Müller / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 117-143, 27 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.8 --- Onset of Maikop sedimentation and cessation of Eocene arc volcanism in the Talysh Mountains, Azerbaijan / A. van der Boon, K. F. Kuiper, G. Villa, W. Renema, M. J. M. Meijers, C. G. Langereis, E. Aliyeva and W. Krijgsman / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 145-169, 29 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.3 --- Growth structures, piggy-back basins and growth strata of the Georgian part of the Kura foreland fold–thrust belt: implications for Late Alpine kinematic evolution / V. M. Alania, A. O. Chabukiani, R. L. Chagelishvili, O. V. Enukidze, K. O. Gogrichiani, A. N. Razmadze and N. S. Tsereteli / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 171-185, 27 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.5 --- Thermochronometric evidence for Miocene tectonic reactivation of the Sevan–Akera suture zone (Lesser Caucasus): a far-field tectonic effect of the Arabia–Eurasia collision? / W. Cavazza, I. Albino, M. Zattin, G. Galoyan, N. Imamverdiyev and R. Melkonyan / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 187-198, 27 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.4 --- The ‘Black Sea’ domain --- DOBRE-2 WARR profile: the Earth's upper crust across Crimea between the Azov Massif and the northeastern Black Sea / V. Starostenko, T. Janik, R. Stephenson, D. Gryn, O. Rusakov, W. Czuba, P. Środa, M. Grad, A. Guterch, E. Flüh, H. Thybo, I. Artemieva, A. Tolkunov, G. Sydorenko, D. Lysynchuk, V. Omelchenko, K. Kolomiyets, O. Legostaeva, A. Dannowski and A. Shulgin / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 199-220, 3 February 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.11 --- Local tomography model of the northeastern Black Sea: intra-plate crustal underthrusting / Valentina Gobarenko, Tamara Yegorova and Randell Stephenson / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 221-239, 27 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.2 --- Mesozoic to recent geological history of southern Crimea and the Eastern Black Sea region / A. M. Nikishin, M. Wannier, A. S. Alekseev, O. A. Almendinger, P. A. Fokin, R. R. Gabdullin, A. K. Khudoley, L. F. Kopaevich, A. V. Mityukov, E. I. Petrov and E. V. Rubtsova / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 241-264, 27 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.1 --- Key problems of stratigraphy in the Eastern Crimea Peninsula: some insights from new dating and structural data / Yevgeniya Sheremet, Marc Sosson, Carla Muller, Oleg Gintov, Anna Murovskaya and Tamara Yegorova / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 265-306, 7 April 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.14 --- Geological structure of the northern part of the Eastern Black Sea from regional seismic reflection data including the DOBRE-2 CDP profile / G. Sydorenko, R. Stephenson, T. Yegorova, V. Starostenko, A. Tolkunov, T. Janik, M. Majdanski, Z. Voitsitskiy, O. Rusakov and V. Omelchenko / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 307-321, 23 May 2016, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.15 --- Stratigraphic comparisons along the Pontides (Turkey) based on new nannoplankton age determinations in the Eastern Pontides: geodynamic implications / J.-C. Hippolyte, C. Müller, E. Sangu and N. Kaymakci / Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 428, 323-358, 27 October 2015, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP428.9