The Caucasian-Arabian belt is part of the huge late Cenozoic Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt formed by collision of continental plates. The belt consists of two domains： the Caucasian-Arabian Syntaxis （CAS） in the s...The Caucasian-Arabian belt is part of the huge late Cenozoic Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt formed by collision of continental plates. The belt consists of two domains： the Caucasian-Arabian Syntaxis （CAS） in the south and the EW-striking Greater Caucasus in the north. The GAS marks a zone of the indentation of the Arabian plate into the southern East European Craton. The Greater Caucasus Range is located in the south of the Eurasian plate; it was tectonically uplifted along the Main Caucasian Fault （MCF）, which is, in turn, a part of a megafault extended over a great distance from the Kopetdag Mts. to the Tornquist- Teisseyre Trans-European Suture Zone. The Caucasus Mts. are bounded by the Black Sea from the west and by the Caspian Sea from the east. The SN-striking CAS is characterized by a large geophysical isostatic anomaly suggesting presence of mantle plume head. A 500 km long belt of late Cenozoic volcanism in the CAS extends from the eastern Anatolia to the Lesser and Greater Caucasus ranges. This belt hosts two different types of volcanic rocks： （1） plume-type intraplate basaltic plateaus and （2） suprasubductiontype calc-alkaline and shoshonite-latite volcanic rocks. As the CAS lacks signatures of subduction zones and is characterized by relatively shallow earthquakes （50 60 kin）. we suggest that the ＂supra- subduction-type＂ magmas were derived by interaction between mantle plume head and crustal material. Those hybrid melts were originated under conditions of collision-related deformation. During the late Cenozoic, the width of the CAS reduced to ca. 400 km due to tectonic ＂diffluence＂ of crustal material Drovided bv the continuing Arabia-Eurasia collision.展开更多
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文摘The Caucasian-Arabian belt is part of the huge late Cenozoic Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt formed by collision of continental plates. The belt consists of two domains： the Caucasian-Arabian Syntaxis （CAS） in the south and the EW-striking Greater Caucasus in the north. The GAS marks a zone of the indentation of the Arabian plate into the southern East European Craton. The Greater Caucasus Range is located in the south of the Eurasian plate; it was tectonically uplifted along the Main Caucasian Fault （MCF）, which is, in turn, a part of a megafault extended over a great distance from the Kopetdag Mts. to the Tornquist- Teisseyre Trans-European Suture Zone. The Caucasus Mts. are bounded by the Black Sea from the west and by the Caspian Sea from the east. The SN-striking CAS is characterized by a large geophysical isostatic anomaly suggesting presence of mantle plume head. A 500 km long belt of late Cenozoic volcanism in the CAS extends from the eastern Anatolia to the Lesser and Greater Caucasus ranges. This belt hosts two different types of volcanic rocks： （1） plume-type intraplate basaltic plateaus and （2） suprasubductiontype calc-alkaline and shoshonite-latite volcanic rocks. As the CAS lacks signatures of subduction zones and is characterized by relatively shallow earthquakes （50 60 kin）. we suggest that the ＂supra- subduction-type＂ magmas were derived by interaction between mantle plume head and crustal material. Those hybrid melts were originated under conditions of collision-related deformation. During the late Cenozoic, the width of the CAS reduced to ca. 400 km due to tectonic ＂diffluence＂ of crustal material Drovided bv the continuing Arabia-Eurasia collision.
