http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S167498711000040X

The Eastern Pontides orogenic belt in the Black Sea region of Turkey offers a critical window to plate kinematics and subduction polarity during the closure of the Paleotethys.Here we provide a brief synthesis on recent information from this belt.We infer a southward subduction for the origin of the Eastern Pontides orogenic belt and its associated late Mesozoic-Cenozoic niagmatism based on clear spatial and temporal variations in Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic arc magmatism,together with the existence of a p...