A number of sedimentary basins formed within the Tauride–Anatolide Platform of
Anatolia during the Late Cretaceous–Tertiary period. Previous studies have proposed different
tectonic and evolutionary models for each basin. Geological characteristics of the basins, however,
suggest that all these basins are of the same origin and that they followed a similar evolutionary model
to one another. Basin development within the Tauride–Anatolide Platform took place in a post-collisional
environment following the northward subduction of the northern Neotethys ocean beneath
the Pontides. The closure of the northern Neotethys ocean ended with collision of the Tauride–Anatolide Platform with the Pontide volcanic arc and resulted in large bodies of oceanic remnants
thrust over the Tauride–Anatolide Platform as ophiolite nappes. Formation of the sedimentary basins
followed the emplacement of the ophiolite nappes as they formed as piggy-back basins on top of the
underlying thrust ophiolite basement.
Erratum to: New paleomagnetic results from Upper Cretaceous arc-type rocks from the northern and southern branches of the Neotethys ocean in Anatolia
