Structure and kinematics of the central Sivas Basin (Turkey): A fold-and-thrust belt with salt tectonics

Fold and Thrust Belts: Structural style, evolution and exploration 31 October – 2 November 2017 The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, LondonThe Sivas Basin in central-eastern Anatolia, is a north-verging fold-and-thrust belt involving Late Cretaceous to Neogene sediments. It belongs to a group of Anatolian basins that developed after the northern Neotethys closure. The Sivas Basin formed above the northern leading edge of the Tauride platform, the K¿r¿ehir micro-continent, the edge of the Pontide arc and the related ophiolitic suture. It is all together the richest, the most studied and also most complex of the group of Tertiary basins in Turkey. Its complex structure is that of a fold-and-thrust belt with synorogenic salt tectonics