Reorganization of the Tertiary Stratigraphy in the Adana Basin, Southern Turkey

The stratigraphic architecture and evolution of the Burdigalian carbonate—siliciclastic sedimentary systems of the Mut Basin, Turkey

“…Marine transgression invaded a relict topography during the early Miocene in the Adana Basin (Schmidt, 1961), and this is a factor common to all three areas of Adana, Mut, and Antalya (YetiY, 1988). Sezer (1970) in his thesis described the Miocene stratigraphy of the northern part of the Mut Basin, performed planktonic foraminifera dating, catalogued the Miocene macrofauna, and made a geological map.…”

Tectono-Sedimentary evolution and geochronology of the Middle Miocene Altınapa Basin, and implications for the Late Cenozoic uplift history of the Taurides, southern Turkey

“…The dominantly marine basins are located mainly in the southern limb of the belt and include the well-described Adana, Mut and Antalya (including the Manavgat, Köprüçay and Aksu) basins (e.g. Çiner et al, 2008;Darbas and Nazik, 2010;Derman and Gürbüz, 2007;Eriş et al, 2005;Gül, 2007;Janson et al, 2010;Karabıyıkoğlu et al, 2005;Poisson et al, 2003;Yetiş, 1988). A diachronous marine transgression flooded the southern part of the belt in Cyprus from the late Oligocene onward, and reached the Antalya, Mut and Adana regions in the north during the Early Miocene .…”

A microscopic approach to the pedogenic formation of palygorskite associated with Quaternary calcretes of the Adana area, southern Turkey

“…(b) Location map of the study area in the Adana Basin. (Yalçın and Görür, 1983;Yetiş, 1988;Yetiş et al, 1995;Gürbüz, 1999). The Kuzgun (Tortonian) and Handere (Messinian-Pliocene) formations and the Quaternary units widely outcrop in the area (Figures 2 and 3).…”

“…The Kuzgun Formation (Tortonian) consists of shallow marine to nonmarine sandstones and mudstones. The Handere Formation comprises mainly mudstones and also conglomerates and sandstones of shallow marine, lagoonal, and fluvial environments (Yetiş, 1988;Yetiş et al, 1995;Gürbüz, 1999). Quaternary units include alluvial terraces, patches of lagoonal remnants, hardpan calcretes, and recent alluvium.…”