Stratigraphy and tectono-sedimentary evolution of the Upper Cretaceous–Tertiary sequence in the southern part of the Malatya Basin, East Anatolia, Turkey

Petrographic and Geochemical Investigations on the Pottery Production from Arslantepe–Malatya (Eastern Anatolia) from the Fourth to the Second Millennium BCE: Technological Continuity, Innovation and Cultural Change

“…Arslantepe is situated in the south‐easternmost part of the Malatya Plain in Eastern Anatolia, 15 km south‐west of the Euphrates River and north of the Antitaurus Mountains. The Malatya Plain is located in a large fault‐boundary continental basin formed during the Neogene in response to strike–slip and extensional regimes (Şaroğlu and Güner ; Şengör et al ; Şaroğlu and Yılmaz ; Önal ; Önal and Kaya ; Türkmen et al ) and spreading over 800 km 2 , which contains an Upper Cretaceous to Tertiary sedimentary succession up to 700 m thick. The fill of the basin can be subdivided into three main sequences (the Gündüzbey group, the Beylerderesi formation and the Yeşilyurt group), alternating fluvial, alluvial, shallow‐ and deep‐marine environments (Önal and Kaya ).…”

Benthic foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the tertiary sediments from the Elazig and Malatya Basins, Eastern Turkey

“…Pioneering works were carried out by Akkus (1971), Sirel et al (1975), Avsar (1983Avsar ( ,1989, Asutay (1986), Örcen (1986), Turan (1984Turan ( , 1991, Turan and Bingöl (1991), Önal and Gözübol (1992), Sirel and Acar (1993), Özkul and Kerey (1996), Aksoy et al (1996), Sirel (1998) and Önal and Kaya (2007). Turan (1984) reported that Kirkgecit Formation is Lutetian in age and the age of Alibonca Formation is Lower Miocene, according to foraminiferal data.…”

“…3). The Gündüzbey Group consists of sandstone, mudstone with interbedded conglomerate, shelf carbonate and flysch-like segments; with a total thickness of about 345 m. The Yesilyurt Group has been divided into Zorban, Yildiztepe, Suludere and Gedik Formations (Önal and Kaya, 2007) (Fig.1). Middle-Late Lutetian Yildiztepe Formation is characterized by foraminifera and corallinae-bearing reeflike limestone with mudstone, calcareous sandstone, claystone and sandy limestone interbeds.…”

Quaternary post-collision alkaline volcanism NW of Ahar (NW Iran): geochemical constraints of fractional crystallization process

“…Dewey et al 1986;Karakhanian et al 1997;Talebian & Jackson 2002;Karakhanian et al 2004;Copley & Jackson 2006). This region was affected by a complex tectonic regime from the Late Paleocene-Early Eocene ( engör & Kidd 1979;Topuz et al 2005;Karsli et al 2007;Önal & Kaya 2007). The melt generation modelling and geochemical results presented above show that the source of the alkaline rocks is enriched in LILE and LREE relative to primitive mantle (PM) and depleted MORB mantle (DMM).…”