A Brief Geological Outline of the Lesser Caucasus: New Insights on its Tethyan-Alpine Evolution Based on Recent Results of a French-Armenian Collaboration
Journal: Annales de la Société Géologique du Nord
Year: 2011

The Tethyan geology of the Lesser Caucasus has a multiphase and complex history. The main lithotectonic domains that can be individualized during the presence of a Tethyan oceanic branch in the region are (i) the South Armenian Block (SAB), a Gondwanian remain that is mainly known by its characteristic Middle to Upper Palaeozoic sedimentary sequences; (ii) ophiolitic units, including their sedimentary cover, which record a complex history of geodynamic, magmatic and sedimentary events, and (iii)