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A fore-arc origin for the Thrace Basin, NW Turkey

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Hydrocarbon-bearing Thrace Basin occupies much of the European part of Turkey. The Middle Eocene to Oligocene sequence in the centre of the basin exceeds 9 km in thickness. Based on the stratigraphy, structure and the regional context of this basin, we propose that it developed as a fore-arc basin between the medial Eocene and the Oligocene, above the northward subducting Intra-Pontide Ocean. Its post-Miocene history has been dominated mainly by wrench tectonics resulting from the activity of the now-deactivated northwestern strand. of the present-day North Anatolian fault zone.

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Görür, N., Okay, A.I. A fore-arc origin for the Thrace Basin, NW Turkey. Geol Rundsch 85, 662–668 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02440103

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