Cambrian–Ordovician depositional sequences in the Middle East: A perspective from Turkey

Ghienne, Jean‐François; Monod, Olivier; Kozlu, Hüseyin; Dean, W T

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“…The first locality is about 1 km north of Taraşçı, in the western Taurus Mountains, Antalya Province, Turkey (37°27ʹ11.37ʺN; 31°45ʹ06.89ʺE; Figure 1b). Echinoderm accumulations are here located at the top of the calcarenitic beds in the lower part of the Sobova Formation (Ghienne et al, 2010). The second section is located at Kozan Dam, about 8 km north of Kozan, in the eastern Taurus Mountains, Adana Province, Turkey (37°28ʹ44.88ʺN; 35°47ʹ46.48ʺE; Figure 1c).…”

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“…addition, the presence of a "cystoid bed" was reported in sedimentological and micropalontological studies, without any further details (Dean and Monod, 1970;Göncüoğlu et al, 2004;Paris et al, 2007;Ghienne et al, 2010). The only description of Mid-Ordovician echinoderm assemblages in the Middle East is from the Lashkarak Formation of Alborz Mountains, Iran (Lefebvre et al, 2005).…”

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“…The Sobova Formation corresponds to well-bedded, massive, pink-coloured detrital limestones, about 20 m thick in the western Taurides, and about 50 m thick in the eastern Taurides Monod, 1970, 1990;Kalafatçıoğlu, 1975;Ghienne et al, 2010). These successions were interpreted as a shallowing-upward sequence on a carbonate-dominated platform (Kozlu et al, 2003).…”

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“…The second section is located at Kozan Dam, about 8 km north of Kozan, in the eastern Taurus Mountains, Adana Province, Turkey (37°28ʹ44.88ʺN; 35°47ʹ46.48ʺE; Figure 1c). Echinoderm accumulations occur either at the base or in the middle of the greyish-pinkish micritic limestone beds in the lower part of the equivalent of the Sobova Formation (Figures 2a-2c) (Ghienne et al, 2010). The pinkish grey limestones containing the "cystoid bed" have yielded a diverse conodont fauna assigned to the Baltoniodus norrlandicus Zone (latest Dapingian), based on the occurrence of the index species in both the western and eastern Taurides .…”

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First report of sphaeronitid blastozoans (Echinodermata) in the Middle Ordovician of the Taurides, Turkey

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However, our precise knowledge of the palaeobiogeographic patterns of the diversification of echinoderms in Mid-Ordovician times remains largely biased, for historical reasons, towards regions of modern Europe, North Africa, and North America, while very little information is available from other parts of the world. This observation is largely true as far as peri-Gondwanan echinoderms are concerned: most data on Mid-Ordovician echinoderm assemblages are from highlatitude regions (e.g.,

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“…Figure 2. Stratigraphic column of the studied units with detailed succession in the Köprülü section (after Janvier et al 1984, Ghienne et al 2010 to the destruction of the specimens at hand. Further sampling in the area should allow more precise assignments and bring new light on Devonian faunas of Southeastern Turkey.…”

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New record of a Middle Devonian brachiopod fauna from the Northern Arabian Plate, Zap Anticline, Çukurca-Hakkari, Southeastern Turkey

Gourvennec¹,

Hoşgör²

2012

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Evidence for Late Devonian vertical movements and extensional deformation in northern Africa and Arabia: Integration in the geodynamics of the Devonian world

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The Upper Paleozoic geodynamic evolution is discussed at the scale of a wide part of Gondwana from North Africa to Arabia. With the aim of giving an integrated tectonic scenario for the study domain, we revisit six key areas, namely, the Anti‐Atlas Belt (Morocco), the Bechar Basin (west Algeria), the Hassi R'Mel High (central Algeria), the Talemezane Arch (south Tunisia), the Western Desert (Egypt), and, finally, the High Zagros Belt (Iran). Below the so‐called “Hercynian unconformity,” which is in reality a highly composite discontinuity, surface and subsurface data display a well‐known arch‐and‐basin geometry, with basement highs and intervening Paleozoic basins. We show that this major feature results mainly from a Late Devonian event and can no longer be interpreted as a far effect of the Variscan Orogeny. This event is characterized by a more or less diffuse extensional deformation and accompanied either by subsidence, in the western part of the system, or by an important uplift of probable thermal origin followed by erosion and peneplanation. By the end of the Devonian, the whole region suffered a general subsidence governed by the progressive cooling of the lithosphere. Such a primary configuration is preserved in Arabia with typical sag geometry of the Carboniferous and Permian deposits but strongly disturbed elsewhere by the conjugated effects of the Variscan Orogeny during the Carboniferous and/or by subsequent uplifts linked to the central Atlantic and Neo‐Tethys rifting episodes. In conclusion, we try to integrate this new understanding in the geodynamics of the Late Devonian, which at world scale is characterized by the onset of the Variscan Orogeny on the one hand and by magmatism, rifting, and basement uplift on the other hand.

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Cambrian–Ordovician depositional sequences in the Middle East: A perspective from Turkey

Cited by 86 publications

References 136 publications

First report of sphaeronitid blastozoans (Echinodermata) in the Middle Ordovician of the Taurides, Turkey

First report of sphaeronitid blastozoans (Echinodermata) in the Middle Ordovician of the Taurides, Turkey

New record of a Middle Devonian brachiopod fauna from the Northern Arabian Plate, Zap Anticline, Çukurca-Hakkari, Southeastern Turkey

Evidence for Late Devonian vertical movements and extensional deformation in northern Africa and Arabia: Integration in the geodynamics of the Devonian world

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