Tectonostratigraphic relationships between the North Anatolian Thrust Zone(NATZ), and the Kirsehir Massif to the north of Sivas (Turkey)

In Central Anatolia, to the north of Sivas, the remains of the Northern Neo tethyan domain crops out in a system of south verging th rust slices interc alated between the Eurasiatic margin (Tokat Massif), and the Taurus. In the se nappes, sedimentary sequences have recorded the last steps of the Neotet hyan evolution during the Late Cretaceous and of its closure during Palaeog ene times. An ophiolitic melange is dated as Cenomano-Turonian or older and the thrusting of the Neotethyan nappes onto the Taurus belt (which corresp onds to the closure of the Neotethys), is pre-Cuisian. ((C) Academie des sc iences / Elsevier, Paris.).