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References and selected publications of Aral Okay

• Akbayram, K., Okay, A. I., & Satır, M. (2013). Early cretaceous closure of the Intra-Pontide Ocean in western Pontides (northwestern Turkey). Journal of Geodynamics, 65, 38–55.10.1016/j.jog.2012.05.003
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• Cavazza, W., Okay, A. I., & Zattin, M. (2009). Rapid early-middle Miocene exhumation of the Kazdağ Massif (western Anatolia). International Journal of Earth Sciences, 98, 1935–1947.10.1007/s00531-008-0353-9
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• Cavazza, C., Federici, I., Okay, A. I., & Zattin, M. (2012). Apatite fission-track thermochronology of the Western Pontides (NW Turkey). Geological Magazine, 149, 133–140.10.1017/S0016756811000525
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• Gökçeoğlu, C., Okay, A. I., & Sezer, E. (2008). International earth science literature from Turkey – 1970–2005: Trends and possible causes. Scientometrics, 74, 409–423.
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• Görür, N., & Okay, A. I. (1996). Fore-arc origin of the Thrace basin, northwest Turkey. Geologische Rundschau, 85, 662–668.
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• Less, G., Özcan, E., & Okay, A. I. (2011). Stratigraphy and larger foraminifera of the Middle Eocene to Lower Oligocene shallow-marine units in the northern and eastern parts of the Thrace Basin, NW Turkey. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 20, 793–845.
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• Leven, E. Ja., & Okay, A. I. (1996). Foraminifera from the exotic Permo-Carboniferous limestone blocks in the Karakaya Complex, northwest Turkey. Rivista Italiana Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 102, 139–174.
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• Okay, A. I. (1978). Sodic pyroxenes from metabasites in the eastern Mediterranean. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 68, 7–11.10.1007/BF00375442
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• Okay, A. I. (1980a). Mineralogy, petrology, and phase relations of glaucophane-lawsonite zone blueschists from the Tavşanli Region, Northwest Turkey. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 72, 243–255.10.1007/BF00376143
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• Okay, A. I. (1980b). Lawsonite zone blueschists and a sodic amphibole producing reaction in the Tavşanlı region, northwest Turkey. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 75, 179–186.
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• Okay, A. I. (1980c). Sodic amphiboles as oxygen fugacity indicators in metamorphism. The Journal of Geology, 88, 225–232.10.1086/jg.1980.88.issue-2
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• Okay, A. I. (1982). Incipient blueschist metamorphism and metasomatism in the Tavşanli region, Northwest Turkey. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 79, 361–367.10.1007/BF01132065
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• Okay, A. I. (1984a). Distribution and characteristics of the northwest Turkish blueschists. In J. E. Dixon & A. H. F. Robertson (Eds.), The geological evolution of the eastern Mediterranean, Vol. 17 (pp. 455–466). London: Geological Society (Special Publication).
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• Okay, A. I. (1984b). The geology of the Ağvanis metamorphic rocks and neighbouring formations. Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration Institute of Turkey, 99, 16–36.
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• Okay, A. I. (1985). Metamorphic belts in northwest Anatolia (in Turkish). In Ketin Symposium Book (pp. 83–92). Ankara: Publication of the Geological Society of Turkey.
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• Okay, A. I. (1986). High pressure/low temperature metamorphic rocks of Turkey. In B. W. Evans, & E. H. Brown (Eds.), Blueschists and eclogites, Vol. 164 (pp. 333–347). Memoir: Geological Society of America.10.1130/MEM164
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• Okay, A. I. (1989a). An exotic eclogite/blueschist slice in a Barrovian-style metamorphic terrain, Alanya Nappes, southern Turkey. Journal of Petrology, 30, 107–132.10.1093/petrology/30.1.107
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• Okay, A. I. (1989b). Tectonic units and sutures in the Pontides, northern Turkey. In A. M. C. Şengör (Ed.), Tectonic evolution of the Tethyan region (pp. 109–116). NATO Advanced ASI Series. Kluwer Academic: Dordrecht.10.1007/978-94-009-2253-2
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• Okay, A. I. (1989c). Geology of the Menderes Massif and the Lycian nappes south of Denizli, western Taurides. Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration of Turkey, 109, 37–51.
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• Okay, A. I. (1993). Petrology of a diamond and coesite-bearing metamorphic terrain: Dabie Shan, China. European Journal of Mineralogy, 5, 659–675.
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• Okay, A. I. (1994). Sapphirine and Ti-clinohumite in ultra-high-pressure garnet-pyroxenite and eclogite from Dabie Shan, China. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 116, 145–155.10.1007/BF00310696
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• Okay, A. I. (1995). Paragonite eclogites from Dabie Shan, China: Re-equilibration during exhumation? Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 13, 449–460.10.1111/jmg.1995.13.issue-4
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• Okay, A. I. (1996). Granulite facies gneisses from the Pulur region, Eastern Pontides. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 5, 55–61.
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• Okay, A. I. (1997). Jadeite-K-feldspar rocks and jadeitites from northwest Turkey. Mineralogical Magazine, 61, 835–843.10.1180/claymin
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• Okay, A. I. (2000). Was the late Triassic orogeny in Turkey caused by the collision of an oceanic plateau? In E. Bozkurt, J. A. Winchester, & J. A. D. Piper (Eds.), Tectonics and magmatism in Turkey and surrounding area, Vol. 173 (pp. 25–41). London: Geological Society (Special Publications).
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• Okay, A. I. (2001). Stratigraphic and metamorphic inversions in the central Menderes Massif: A new structural model. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 89, 709–727.10.1007/s005310000098
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• Okay, A. I. (2002). Jadeite-chloritoid-glaucophane-lawsonite blueschists in north-west Turkey: Unusually high P/T ratios in continental crust. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 20, 757–768.10.1046/j.1525-1314.2002.00402.x
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• Okay, A. I. (2008). Geology of Turkey: A synopsis. Anschnitt, Zeitschrift für Kunst und Kultur im Bergbau. Veröffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Nr. 157. Beiheft, 21, 19–42.
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• Okay, A. I. (2011). Tavşanlı zone: The northern subducted margin of the Anatolide-Tauride block. Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration, 142, 191–221.
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• Okay, A. I., & Altıner, D. (2004). Uppermost Triassic limestone in the Karakaya Complex – stratigraphic and tectonic significance. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 13, 187–199.
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• Okay, A. I., & Altıner, D. (2007). A condensed Mesozoic section in the Bornova Flysch Zone: A fragment of the Anatolide-Tauride carbonate platform. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 16, 257–279.
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• Okay, A. I., Arman, M. B., & Göncüoğlu, M. C. (1985). Petrology and phase relations of the kyanite-eclogites from eastern Turkey. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 91, 196–204.10.1007/BF00377767
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• Okay, A. I., Bozkurt, E., Satır, M., Yiğitbaş, E., Crowley, Q. G., & Shang, C. K. (2008). Defining the southern margin of Avalonia in the Pontides: Geochronological data from the Late Proterozoic and Ordovician granitoids from NW Turkey. Tectonophysics, 461, 252–264.10.1016/j.tecto.2008.02.004
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• Okay, A. I., Celal Şengör, A. M. C., & Görür, N. (1994). Kinematic history of the opening of the Black Sea and its effect on the surrounding regions. Geology, 22, 267–270.10.1130/0091-7613(1994)022<0267:KHOTOO>2.3.CO;2
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• Okay, A. I., Demirbağ, E., Kurt, H., Okay, N., & Kuşçu, İ. (1999). An active, deep marine strike-slip basin along the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey. Tectonics, 18, 129–147.10.1029/1998TC900017
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• Okay, A. I., & Göncüoğlu, M. C. (2004). Karakaya complex: A review of data and concepts. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 13, 77–95.
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• Okay, A. I., Harris, N. B. W., & Kelley, S. P. (1998). Exhumation of blueschists along a Tethyan suture in northwest Turkey. Tectonophysics, 285, 275–299.10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00275-8
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• Okay, A. I., İşintek, İ., Altıner, D., Özkan-Altıner, S., & Okay, N. (2012). An olistostrome–mélange belt formed along a suture: Bornova Flysch zone, western Turkey. Tectonophysics, 568–569, 282–295.10.1016/j.tecto.2012.01.007
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• Okay, A. I., Kaşlılar-Özcan, A., İmren, C., Boztepe-Güney, A., Demirbağ, E., & Kuşçu, İ. (2000). Active Faults and evolving strike-slip basins in the Marmara Sea, northwest Turkey: A multichannel seismic reflection study. Tectonophysics, 321, 189–218.10.1016/S0040-1951(00)00046-9
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• Okay, A. I., & Kelley, S. P. (1994). Tectonic setting, petrology and geochronology of jadeite + glaucophane and chloritoid + glaucophane schists from north-west Turkey. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 12, 455–466.10.1111/jmg.1994.12.issue-4
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• Okay, A. I., & Leven, E. Ja. (1996). Stratigraphy and paleontology of the Upper Paleozoic sequence in the Pulur (Bayburt) region, Eastern Pontides. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 5, 145–155.
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• Okay, A. I., & Monié, P. (1997). Early Mesozoic subduction in the Eastern Mediterranean: Evidence from Triassic eclogite in northwest Turkey. Geology, 25, 595–598.10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0595:EMSITE>2.3.CO;2
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• Okay, A. I., Monod, O., & Monié, P. (2002). Triassic blueschists and eclogites from northwest Turkey: Vestiges of the Paleo-Tethyan subduction. Lithos, 64, 155–178.10.1016/S0024-4937(02)00200-1
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• Okay, A. I., & Mostler, H. (1994). Carboniferous and Permian radiolarite blocks from the Karakaya Complex in northwest Turkey. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 3, 23–28.
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• Okay, A. I., Noble, P. J., & Tekin, U. K. (2011). Devonian radiolarian ribbon cherts from the Karakaya Complex, northwest Turkey: Implications for the Paleo-Tethyan evolution. Comptes Rendus Palevol, 10, 1–10.10.1016/j.crpv.2010.12.002
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• Okay, A. I., Özcan, E., Cavazza, W., Okay, N., & Less, G. (2010). Basement types, Lower Eocene series, Upper Eocene olistostromes and the initiation of the southern Thrace Basin, NW Turkey. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 19, 1–25.
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• Okay, A. I., & Özgül, N. (1984). HP/LT metamorphism and the structure of the Alanya Massif, Southern Turkey: An allochthonous composite tectonic sheet. In J. E. Dixon, & A. H. F. Robertson (Eds.), The geological evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean, Vol. 17 (pp. 429–439). London: Geological Society (Special Publications).
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• Okay, A. I., & Şahintürk, Ö. (1997). Geology of the Eastern Pontides. In A. G. Robinson (Ed.), Regional and petroleum geology of the Black Sea and surrounding region, Vol. 68 (pp. 291–311). Tulsa: American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), Memoir.
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• Okay, A. I., Şahintürk, Ö., & Yakar, H. (1997). Stratigraphy and tectonics of the Pulur (Bayburt) region in the Eastern Pontides. Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration Institute of Turkey, 119, 1–24.
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• Okay, A. I., & Satir, M. (2000a). Coeval plutonism and metamorphism in a latest Oligocene metamorphic core complex in northwest Turkey. Geological Magazine, 137, 495–516.10.1017/S0016756800004532
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• Okay, A. I., & Satır, M. (2000b). Upper Cretaceous eclogite facies metamorphic rocks from the Biga Peninsula, northwest Turkey. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, 9, 47–56.
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• Okay, A. I., & Satir, M. (2006). Geochronology of Eocene plutonism and metamorphism in northwest. Geodinamica Acta, 19, 251–266.10.3166/ga.19.251-266
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• Okay, A. I., Satır, M., Maluski, H., Siyako, M., Monie, P., Metzger, R., & Akyüz, S. (1996). Paleo- and Neo-Tethyan events in northwest Turkey: Geological and geochronological constraints. In A. Yin & M. Harrison (Eds.), Tectonics of Asia (pp. 420–441). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Okay, A. I., Satır, M., Tüysüz, O., Akyüz, S., & Chen, F. (2001). The tectonics of the Strandja Massif: Late-Variscan and mid-Mesozoic deformation and metamorphism in the northern Aegean. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 90, 217–233.10.1007/s005310000104
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• Okay, A. I., Satir, M., Zattin, M., Cavazza, W., & Topuz, G. (2008). An Oligocene ductile strike-slip shear zone: The Uludag Massif, northwest Turkey – Implications for the westward translation of Anatolia. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 120, 893–911.10.1130/B26229.1
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• Okay, A. I., Şengör, A. M. C., & Satir, M. (1993). Tectonics of an ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terrane: The Dabie Shan/Tongbai Shan Orogen, China. Tectonics, 12, 1320–1334.10.1029/93TC01544
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• Okay, A. I., & Siyako, M. (1993). The revised location of the İzmir-Ankara Suture in the region between Balıkesir and İzmir. In S. Turgut (Ed.), Ozan Sungurlu Symposium Proceedings, Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Potential of Anatolia and Surrounding Regions (pp. 333–355). Ankara.
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• Okay, A. I., Sunal, G., Tüysüz, O., Sherlock, S., Keskin, M., & Kylander-Clark, A. R. C. (2014). Low-pressure – High-temperature metamorphism during extension in a Jurassic magmatic arc, Central Pontides, Turkey. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 49–69. doi:10.1111/jmg.12058
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• Okay, A. I., & Whitney, D. L. (2010). Blueschists, eclogites, ophiolites and suture zones in northwest Turkey: A review and a field excursion guide. Ofioliti, 35, 131–172.
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