Sedimentary facies, depositional environments and palaeogeographic evolution of the Neogene Denizli Basin, SW Anatolia, Turkey

Alçiçek, Hülya; Varol, Baki; Özkul, Mehmet

doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.06.002

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“…The overlying graben fill is divided into two categories (Koçyiğit, 2005) based on the deformation patterns and tectonic periods during which it accumulated as either ancient graben fill or modern graben fill (Figure 2), and is separated by an angular unconformity. The ancient graben fill consists mainly of fluvial and lake deposits (Alçiçek, Varol, & Özkul, 2007;Koçyiğit, 2005) and is dated as late-middle Miocene-Middle Pliocene in age by Koçyiğit (2005), and the modern graben fill comprising the alluvial/colluvial fan, fluvial deposits and travertines, overlies the Neogene ancient graben fill. The fluvial sediments of the Honaz and Aksu streams in the modern graben are interbedded with large-scale neighbouring alluvial fans deposited on the valley floor.…”

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Tectonic analysis of the Honaz Fault (western Anatolia) using geomorphic indices and the regional implications

Özkaymak

2014

Geodinamica Acta

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Honaz Dağı (Honaz Mountain, Denizli) is the highest peak in western Anatolia (2517 m) and represents the southern margin of the Denizli Graben Horst System in the western Anatolia Extensional Province. Honaz Fault is a 2-km-wide, 15-km-long northward arc-shaped dip-slip listric normal fault that bounds the northern margin of Honaz Dağı, and has been formed under an N-S-trending extensional tectonic regime since the early Quaternary. This study uses fieldwork and digital elevation model-based geomorphic analysis to identify the kinematic behaviour of the Honaz Fault. Morphometric indices, such as axial river profiles, drainage basin geometries, triangular facets, mountain-front lineament patterns and sinuosities, document the impact of active tectonics on the evolution of the Honaz Fault and its surroundings, as do valley floor width-to-height ratios and mountain front facet characteristics. These neotectonic indices suggest a relatively high degree of tectonic activity along the Honaz Fault, and suggest that the Quaternary landscape evolution of Honaz Dağı was governed by structural and climate-related erosional processes. Combined geomorphic indices and field data suggest that the analysed dip-slip normal fault segments of the Honaz Fault are linear and highly active, and could generate earthquakes with magnitudes of 6.7. Morphometric analyses of the fault trace along the mountain front yield minimum slip rates of .15-.38 mm/y for the Honaz Fault, which are similar to slip rates calculated for active normal faults in the Aegean region.

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Section: Geology Of the Study Areamentioning

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Tectonic analysis of the Honaz Fault (western Anatolia) using geomorphic indices and the regional implications

Özkaymak

2014

Geodinamica Acta

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“…Proof of sedimentation in this period in the Alaflehir, Büyük Menderes and Sar›caova grabens comes from the Eskihisar sporomorph association (Becker-Platen, 1970;Seyito¤lu and Scott, 1992;Ediger et al, 1996). In the Denizli graben sedimentation data comes from mammalian findings from the Early Miocene at Bostanyeri and Kabaa¤aç localities (Saraç, 2003;Alçiçek et al, 2007). In accordance with descriptions by Gawthorpe and Hurst (1993) the remaining area between the Büyük Menderes graben and Denizli graben may be assessed as a antithetic transfer zone while the area between the Denizli graben and Alaflehir graben may be a synthetic transfer zone (Figure 29a).…”

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“…Kaymakç› (2006) interpreted Denizli graben fill as Upper Miocene to present sediments advocating the extension had been effective since the Late Miocene. Alçiçek et al (2007) revised the previously created stratigraphy (fiimflek, 1984) and geological maps (Sun, 1990) and red mudstone laminations pass upwards into clast-supported channel-fill conglomerates and finegrained sediments including coal. At the localities of Bostanyeri and Kabaa¤aç MN5-MN6 (Late Burdigalian-Early Serravallian) fossils have been found (Saraç, 2003).…”

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Late Cenozoic Extensional Tectonics in Western Anatolia: Exhumation of the Menderes Core Complex and Formation of Related Basins

Seyítoğlu¹,

Işık²

2015

Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration

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The Aegean region (Western Anatolia, Aegean Sea and Greece) is one of the areas of the earth under the effect of extensional tectonics and includes the typical features of core complexes in this type of region. The Menderes Massif in Western Anatolia was exhumed initially as an asymmetric core complex in the Early Miocene due to extension beginning in the Oligocene and then the central Menderes Massif was further exhumed as a symmetric core complex. This article discusses the exhumation mechanisms of the Menderes Massif and development of surrounding sedimentary basins in light of new findings. The proposed model successfully explains, the location of the Oligocene Kale basin, different movement directions of the Lycian nappes in northern and southern parts of the Datça-Kale Main Breakaway Fault and the top-to-the NNE directed shearing dominantly observed in the whole Menderes Massif.

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“…The travertine bodies have an overall north to south down-stepping structure due to normal faulting (Van Noten et al, 2013;. The travertine deposits are underlain by lacustrine and fluvial-alluvial sandstone, mudstone, marls and conglomerates of the Tosunlar Quaternary Formation (Alçiçek et al, 2007) and are interlayered with marls, conglomerates, sandstones and mudstones.…”

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Comparative study of the Pleistocene Cakmak quarry (Denizli Basin, Turkey) and modern Mammoth Hot Springs deposits (Yellowstone National Park, USA)

Boever

Foubert

Lopez

et al. 2017

Quaternary International

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This study compares and contrasts the travertine depositional facies of two of the largest sites of travertine formation, located in very different geological contexts, i.e. the modern Mammoth Hot Spring (MHS) system in the active volcanic complex of Yellowstone National Park (USA) and the Pleistocene Cakmak quarry, a well-exposed example of the Ballık travertines in the extensional Denizli Basin (Turkey). New, 2D to 3D facies maps of both travertine systems, combined with microscopy, assist in proposing an integrated spring depositional model, based on the existing MHS facies model, understanding general controls on meter to kilometer scale travertine deposit architecture and its preservation, and provide quantitative estimates of facies spatial coverage and slope using GIS. The comparison resulted in the distinction of eight facies, grouped in five downstream facies zones from Vent to Distal Slope. Notwithstanding the different geological context of both travertine systems, observations show that several of the facies are strikingly comparable (draping Apron and Channel Facies, top-slope Pond Facies, crystalline Proximal Slope Facies and Distal Slope Facies), whereas other facies do not have a precise, exposed equivalent (Vent Facies, pavement Apron and Channel Facies, extended Pond facies and phyto Proximal Slope Facies). Combining observations of active springs at MHS with the Cakmak vertical travertine quarry exposures demonstrates that lateral and vertical facies transitions are a sensitive record of changes in the spring dynamics (flow intensity and paths) that become well-preserved in the geological record, and can be recognized as prograding, aggrading, retrograding trends or erosive surfaces, traceable over tens to hundreds of meters. Quantification of facies specific coverage at MHS shows that Proximal and Distal Slope Facies deposits cover as much as~90% of the total mapped surface area. In addition, only~7% of the surface is found to be marked by a waterfilm related to an active flowing spring. Slope statistics reveal that strong slope breaks can often be related to transgressive Apron and Channel Facies belts and that variable, but steep slopes (up to 40 ) are dominated by Proximal Slope Facies, in agreement with the Cakmak exposures. Integrating travertine facies and architecture of deposits formed in distinct geological contexts can improve the prediction of general spring facies distributions and controls in other, modern and ancient, subsurface travertine systems.

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Sedimentary facies, depositional environments and palaeogeographic evolution of the Neogene Denizli Basin, SW Anatolia, Turkey

Cited by 107 publications

References 68 publications

Tectonic analysis of the Honaz Fault (western Anatolia) using geomorphic indices and the regional implications

Tectonic analysis of the Honaz Fault (western Anatolia) using geomorphic indices and the regional implications

Late Cenozoic Extensional Tectonics in Western Anatolia: Exhumation of the Menderes Core Complex and Formation of Related Basins

Comparative study of the Pleistocene Cakmak quarry (Denizli Basin, Turkey) and modern Mammoth Hot Springs deposits (Yellowstone National Park, USA)

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