Sedimentary basin tectonics from the Black Sea and Caucasus to the Arabian Platform / edited by M. Sosson ... [and others].

"This volume belongs to a series of four regionally-themed Geological Society of London special publications presenting some of the results of the Middle East Basin Evolution Programme (MEBE)."--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sedimentary basin tectonics from the Black Sea and Caucasus to the Arabian platform: introduction / M. Sosson [and others] -- The Black Sea back-arc basin: insights to its origin from geodynamic models of modern analogues / R. Stephenson and W.P. Schellart -- Structure of the earth's crust and upper mantle of the west- and east-Black Sea basins revealed from geophysical data and its tectonic implications / T. Yegorova and V. Gobarenko -- The crustal structure of the Black Sea from the reinterpretation of deep seismic sounding data acquired in the 1960s / T. Yegorova, E. Baranova and V. Omelchenko -- Methane in the northern Black Sea: characterization of its geomorphological and geological environments / V.I. Starostenko [and others] -- Brittle deformation, palaeostress field reconstruction and tectonic evolution of the eastern Balkanides (Bulgaria) during Mesozoic and Cenozoic times / F. Bergerat, D. Vangelov and D. Dimov -- Dating of the Black Sea Basin: new nannoplankton ages from its inverted margin in the Central Pontides (Turkey) / J.-C. Hippolyte [and others] -- Cretaceous-Neogene tectonic evolution of the northern margin of the Black Sea from seismic reflection data and tectonic subsidence analysis / O. Khriachtchevskaia, S. Stovba and R. Stephenson -- Seismic sequence stratigraphy, structure and subsidence history of the Romanian Black Sea shelf / C. Konerding, C. Dinu and H.K. Wong -- The Early Mesozoic evolution of the Western Greater Caucasus (Russia): Triassic-Jurassic sedimentary and magmatic history / T. McCann, F. Chalot-Prat and A. Saintot -- Evolution of the Late Cenozoic basins of Georgia (SW Caucasus): a review / Sh. Adamia [and others] -- Cenozoic--recent tectonics and uplift in the Greater Caucasus: a perspective from Azerbaijan / J. Mosar [and others] -- Late Palaeozoic-Early Cenozoic tectonic development of the Eastern Pontides (Artvin area), Turkey: stages of closure of Tethys along the southern margin of Eurasia / T. Ustaömer and A.H.F. Robertson -- Subductions, obduction and collision in the Lesser Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia), new insights / M. Sosson [and others] -- The Armenian Ophiolite: insights for Jurassic back-arc formation, Lower Cretaceous hot spot magmatism and Upper Cretaceous obduction over the South Armenian block / Y. Rolland [and others] -- New and revised radiolarian biochronology for the sedimentary cover of ophiolites in the Lesser Caucasus (Armenia) / T. Danelian [and others] -- Recent tectonic stress evolution in the Lesser Caucasus and adjacent regions / A. Avagyan [and others] -- Late Cretaceous to recent kinematics of SE Anatolia (Turkey) / N. Kaymakci [and others] -- Magmatism in the southeastern Anatolian orogenic belt: transition from arc to post-collisional setting in an evolving orogen / I. Kuscu [and others] -- Alpine high pressure evolution of the eastern Bitlis complex, SE Turkey / R. Oberhänsli [and others] -- Seismic images of crustal variations beneath the East Anatolian Plateau (Turkey) from teleseismic receiver functions / A.A. Özacar [and others].