Lower Carboniferous–Upper Triassic rocks of the Karakaya Complex exposed E–W across Turkey are critical to reconstructions of Palaeotethys in the Eastern Mediterranean region. Despite decades of research, the origin and emplacement of the Karakaya Complex remains controversial because it is mapped either as an overall stratigraphic succession of sedimentary olistostromes or as a stack of thrust sheets and mélange. | Testing alternative tectono-stratigraphic interpretations of the late palaeozoic−early mesozoic Karakaya complex in NW Turkey: Support for an accretionary origin related to northward subduction of palaeotethys
