Palaeozoic to early Mesozoic rocks of both autochthonous and allochthonous units of the Eastern Tauride Belt have different textural and mineralogical features related to their varying deposition regimes and thermal ...

A 2 m thick brecciated zone containing magnesian minerals is present at the contact of tectonites and cumulates. Tectonites below this zone comprise serpentinized orthopyroxenite and serpentinite. An alteration zone with ...

Late Cretaceous bentonitic clays in the Kelkit Valley region of Turkey are composed of an alternation of limestone lenses and silicified tuff nodule-bearing pyroclastic rocks and their alteration products. Quartz, feldspar, ...