From palaeotectonics to neotectonics in the Neotethys realm: The importance of kinematic decoupling and inherited structural grain in SW Anatolia (Turkey)

Eocene to Early Oligocene turbidite sedimentation in the SE Aegean (Karpathos Island, SE Greece): stratigraphy, facies analysis, nannofossil study, and possible hydrocarbon potential

“…Age similarities seem to exist (at least for the Hellenides) with the time span of turbidite deposition in the Pindos Zone and Pelagonian Zone of southern Greece (Faupl et al 2007). Age similarities also exist with Eocene clastic deposits outcropping in the area of the Lycian Nappes in SW Turkey, which represent turbidite sedimentation that lasted through the Eocene due to closure of the northern Neotethys Ocean and the emplacement of the Lycian Nappes towards the southeast (Collins & Robertson 1999ten Veen et al 2009). More particular, the Yavus Thrust Sheet (Collins & Robertson 1998) is interpreted as Early Eocene-Early Oligocene foreland basin sediments, mainly derived from basic volcanic rocks within the Lycian Allochthon.…”

A multiproxy study of the early Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic conditions of an anastomosed fluvial sequence from the Çameli Basin (SW Anatolia, Turkey)

“…The Lycian hinterland contains a series of late Miocene-early Pleistocene aged NE-SW oriented extensional basins including Çal, Sandıklı, Karacasu, Yatağan, Baklan, Acıgöl, Burdur, Çameli and Eşen basins (Cihan et al, 2003;Alçiçek et al, 2005Alçiçek et al, , 2006Alçiçek, 2007;Alçiçek and Ten Veen, 2008;Ten Veen et al, 2009;Alçiçek et al, 2012;Kaya et al, 2012;Alçiçek and Jiménez-Moreno, 2013;Helvacı et al, 2013;Alçiçek et al, 2013aAlçiçek et al, , 2013bSulpizio et al, 2013;Alçiçek and Alçiçek, 2014;Van den Hoek Ostende, 2015a, 2015bJiménez-Moreno et al, 2015Alçiçek, 2015;Alçiçek et al, 2015;Alçiçek et al, 2016). These late Miocene-early Pleistocene aged sub-parallel graben-type depressions are considered as "orogen-top basins" with a synchronic tripartite fill of alluvial, fluvial and lacustrine depositional settings (Alçiçek, 2007;Alçiçek et al, 2015;Alçiçek et al, 2016).…”

“…Palaeontological data from the SW Anatolian basins sheds light on the pattern of inter-regional exchanges (Alçiçek, 2010). As a part of the Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt, Anatolia is a tectonically active area where the mountain uplift and subsequent basin subsidence drove landscape development from the Cenozoic onwards (Ten Veen et al, 2009). During the Neogene, a transition from late orogenic compression to the tectonic collapse of the Tauride and Lycian orogens occurred and the modern neotectonic regime evolved initially accompanied by volcanism (Bozkurt, 2003).…”

Reply to the comment by M.C. Alçiçek on “The Fethiye–Burdur Fault Zone: A component of upper plate extension of the subduction transform edge propagator fault linking Hellenic and Cyprus Arcs, Eastern Mediterranean,” Tectonophysics, 635, 80–99, by J. Hall, A.E. Aksu, İ. Elitez, C. Yaltirak and G. Çifçi

“…Alçiçek (2015) presented the lineament map published by ten Veen et al (2009) and claimed that faulting is "multidimensional". We do not dispute that, but we do claim that there is a distinct set of northeast-southwest trending fault lineations in the area.…”

“…We do not dispute that, but we do claim that there is a distinct set of northeast-southwest trending fault lineations in the area. The map presented by ten Veen et al (2009) is produced by satellite-based 30 m resolution DEM (30 m x 30 m = 1 pixel) where the SRTM data obtained from the USGS Seamless Data Distribution System. On the other hand, we produced a 1:25,000 scale map, using the 1:10,000 scale air photos (6 m x 6 m = 25 pixels) from the General Command of Mapping (Harita Genel Komutanlığı), thus our data base has 5 times higher spatial resolution than the map published by ten Veen et al (2009).…”