The Cimmeride Orogenic System and the Tectonics of Eurasia, Issue 195The analysis presented here suggests that nearly all of the Eurasian "intra-cratonic" structures, classically viewed by some geologists to have resulted from primary vertical movements, may be products of horizontal movements caused by repeated orogenies around the periphery of cratons. Understanding the evolution of the Cimtnerides together with their fore- and hinterlands sheds much light on the Mesozoic tectonics of all of Asia and eastern Europe and leads to a number of interesting concepts concerning continental evolution, such as "hidden subduction." Finally, a study on the evolution of ideas on the Cimmerides clearly shows how much we remain under the spell of the Kober-Stillean fixist philosophy. |
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Afghanistan Alpide Alpine alpinotype Asia aulacogen Bayburt branch of Neo-Tethys Carboniferous Carpathians Central Cimmerian Cimmerian Continent Cimmerides closure of Paleo-Tethys collage collision complex compressional continued cratonic Cretaceous deformation deposits Dobrudja Early Jurassic east eastern Eurasia evolution Figure 9 foreland Geol Geological Map Geology geosyncline germanotype Ghaznian Cimmerides Gondwana-Land Graben granites Greater Caucasus Hercynian hidden subduction Himalaya hinterland Hoh Xil Shan Iran Iranian Istanbul Kuen-Lun Late Jurassic late Paleozoic Late Triassic Laurasia magmatic main Paleo-Tethyan Main Range Mediterranean Cimmerides mélange Mesozoic metamorphism Microcontinent Middle Triassic Mountains Nappe Neo-Tethyan North Dobrudja Ocean ophiolitic Paleo Paleo-Tethyan suture Paleo-Tethys Paleozoic Pamirs Permian plate tectonic Pontides regions rifting rocks sediments segment Şengör and Yılmaz Shaluli Shan Shan arc Sino-Cimmerides Songpan-Ganzi System South China Platform South Mangyshlak-Üst southern Stöcklin strike-slip faults structures subduction zone Suess suture suture zone Tanggula Tethyan Tethys Thailand thrust Tibet Turan uplift volcanic Waşer western