Affiliation:
1. Department of Geological Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, İstanbul University, 34320 Avcılar, İstanbul, Turkey
2. Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences and Faculty of Mines, İstanbul Technical University, 34469 Maslak, İstanbul, Turkey
Abstract
AbstractThe Western Pontide Magmatic Belt consists of two different magmatic series corresponding to two distinct periods of intense volcanism, separated by a pelagic limestone marker horizon resting on a regional unconformity. The first stage of magmatism and associated extensional tectonic regime prevailed in the region between the Middle Turonian and Early Santonian. During the first stage, magmas were derived from a depleted mantle source containing a clear subduction signature. The extrusives intercalated with marine clastic sediments and pelagic carbonates associated with thick debris-flow horizons and olistoliths. Based on geochemistry and depositional features, the first stage is interpreted as an extensional ensialic arc setting developed in response to northwards subduction of the Tethys Ocean beneath the southern margin of Laurasia. During the Late Santonian, the volcanism stopped and the whole region suddenly subsided with the deposition of a thin, but laterally continuous, pelagic limestone horizon. This subsidence may imply the break-up of the Laurasian continental lithosphere and the beginning of oceanic spreading in the Western Black Sea Basin. The intensified extension is interpreted to be linked to the southwards rollback of the subducting slab.During the second stage in the Campanian, magmas were derived from two contrasting mantle sources: (1) a depleted lithospheric mantle enriched by a subduction component; and (2) an enriched asthenospheric mantle which is similar to that of the ocean island basalts (OIB). The depleted lithospheric source may be linked to the subcontinental lithospheric mantle of Laurasia, which was metasomatized by the previous Tethyan subduction event rather than by an active arc magmatism. Lavas derived from the depleted source are abundant throughout the stratigraphic column, whereas those from the enriched source dominate the end of the second stage. The presence of the alkaline lavas may indicate thinning of the lithosphere and upwelling of the asthenospheric mantle in the matured stages of rifting. We argue that the main cause of both rifting and temporal change in magma generation was the steepening and rollback of the northwards subducting slab of the Tethys Ocean. The aforementioned rollback also caused the Istanbul Zone to be moved to the south, and colliding with the Sakarya Zone in the south during the Maastrichtian. Based on geochemical, stratigraphic, palaeontological and sedimentary data, we suggest that the oceanic Western Black Sea Basin opened as an intra-arc basin during Turonian–Santonian time.
Publisher
Geological Society of London
Subject
Geology,Ocean Engineering,Water Science and Technology
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