The eastern Taurus exemplifies continental rifting, passive margin development, Late Cretaceous melange genesis and ophiolite emplacement. Following Triassic rifting, a carbonate platform developed near sea level in the south (Munzur unit), whereas its northern extension (Neritic-pelagic unit) subsided into deep water during Late Jurassic-Late Cretaceous. Triassic-Cretaceous deep-water sediments and volcanics restore as distal deep-water slope/base of slope units. Jurassic-Cretaceous basic volcanics, interbedded with pelagic sediments, represent emplaced oceanic seamounts. Supra-subduction zone ophiolites formed to the north (c. 93 Ma), probably within an Inner Tauride ocean, and were emplaced southwards by trench-margin collision during latest Cretaceous (c. 75-66 Ma). The margin underwent flexural uplift/erosion and then subsidence/foredeep-infill. Part of the Tauride continent in the south (Malatya Metamorphics) deeply underthrust/subducted northwards, then exhumed rapidly by the late Maastrichtian (c. 65 Ma). To the south, oceanic lithosphere (e.g. Göksun ophiolite) was thrust northward beneath Tauride (Malatya) crust from a more southerly oceanic basin (Berit ocean), and intruded by Late Cretaceous subduction-related granitic rocks (88-82 Ma). Allochthonous units were assembled during the latest Cretaceous, followed by thick-skinned folding/thrusting, generally southwards, related to regional collision tectonics during Mid-Late Eocene. Part of the unmetamorphosed Tauride platform and its over-riding Late Cretaceous allochthon were apparently displaced >60 km northeastwards. Mid-Late Miocene regional collision drove variable folding and re-thrusting, in places northwards. Regional comparisons suggest that the Tauride carbonate platform (Geyik Dağ) narrowed eastwards, such that the palaeogeography of the E Taurides differed from farther west, influencing the late Mesozoic-Cenozoic structural development.

金牛座东部是大陆裂谷、被动边缘发育、晚白垩世混杂岩成因和蛇绿岩侵位的例证。三叠纪裂谷作用后，南部（蒙祖尔单元）近海平面发育碳酸盐台地，而其北部延伸部（浅海-远洋单元）在晚侏罗世-晚白垩世沉入深水中。三叠系-白垩系深水沉积物和火山岩恢复为远侧深水斜坡/斜坡单元的底部。侏罗纪-白垩纪基性火山岩与远洋沉积物互层，代表了就位的大洋海山。超俯冲带蛇绿岩形成于北部（约 93 Ma），可能位于内部 Tauride 海洋内，并在晚白垩世（约 75-66 Ma）期间通过海沟边缘碰撞向南移动。边缘经历弯曲隆起/侵蚀，然后下沉/前深填充。南部 Tauride 大陆的一部分（Malatya Metamorphics）向北深冲/俯冲，然后被马斯特里赫特晚期（约 65 Ma）迅速挖掘。在南部，大洋岩石圈（例如 Göksun 蛇绿岩）从更偏南的大洋盆地（贝里特洋）向北推进到陶里德（Malatya）地壳下方，并被晚白垩世俯冲相关的花岗岩侵入（88-82 Ma）。外来单元是在白垩纪晚期组装的，随后是厚皮褶皱/冲断，通常向南，与中晚始新世的区域碰撞构造有关。部分未变质的 Tauride 地台及其上覆的晚白垩世异地生物明显向东北方向移动了 60 公里以上。中-晚中新世区域碰撞在向北的地方驱动了可变的折叠和再推力。区域比较表明，陶里德碳酸盐台地 (Geyik Dağ) 向东变窄，使得陶里德 E 的古地理与较远的西部不同，影响了晚中生代-新生代的构造发育。