Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of an Early Miocene incised valley-fill (Derinçay Formation) in the Mut Basin, Southern Turkey

Eriş, Kürşad Kadir; Bassant, Philip; Ülgen, Umut Barış

doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2003.12.011

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“…supercycles of Haq et al (1988). In some places, the lower part of the TB2 supercycle is characterized by lower Burdigalian continental red-beds, deposited in fluvial environment (lower Burdigalian Derinçay Formation), with lateral and vertical transitions to a lagoon-marine environment (Eris et al 2005;Şafak et al 2005). The younger marine deposits, which are mainly marls with intercalations of resedimented carbonate in channelized bodies (Köselerli Formation) passing laterally and upwards to shallow-water carbonate deposits (bryomol/foramol and rhodalgal limestones, Mut Formation), are related to the evolution of a platform-basin system (Janson et al 2010).…”

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Middle-Upper Miocene paleogeography of southern Turkey: insights from stratigraphy and calcareous nannofossil biochronology of the Olukpınar and Başyayla sections (Mut-Ermenek Basin)

Cipollari¹,

Halásová²,

Gürbüz³

et al. 2013

Turkish J Earth Sci

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"The age of the marine succession capping the basement rocks of the central Taurides in the Mut-Ermenek Basin is constrained. using calcareous nannofossil biochronology. The Olukpınar section, which correlates with the biozones between MNN5a and MNN6b. (late Langhian-late Serravallian), represents a deeper marine environment developed lateral to the Ermenek platform. The long-term. transgressive–regressive cycle of the Olukpınar section, which corresponds to the middle-upper part of the TB2 supercycle, can be. subdivided into 2 large-scale (106 years) cycles (TB2.4 and TB2.5) based on the occurrence of 2 major debris flow deposits linked. to sea-level drop. The younger late Tortonian Başyayla section represents a transgressive–regressive sedimentary cycle (TB3.2 cycle). responsible for the major transgressive event that occurred at the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau during the Late. Miocene. This major transgressive event is responsible for the migration of the coastal onlap of the Mediterranean Sea towards the. interior of the Anatolian Peninsula, almost 100 km inland from the present Eastern Mediterranean coast line. The ~8 Ma age of the. younger marine sediments deposited during the TB3.2 cycle, which onlap the basement rocks of the central Taurides at an elevation of. ~2 km, represents a maximum age for the start of surface uplift of the Central Anatolian Plateau’s southern margin.

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Middle-Upper Miocene paleogeography of southern Turkey: insights from stratigraphy and calcareous nannofossil biochronology of the Olukpınar and Başyayla sections (Mut-Ermenek Basin)

Cipollari¹,

Halásová²,

Gürbüz³

et al. 2013

Turkish J Earth Sci

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“…In the northwest corner of the Basin away from the influence of the strong tidal currents found in the Silifke strait, the isolated platform complex develops. The locus of distribution of these platforms seems to be tightly controlled by the form of the underlying delta (EriY et al, 2004). When this delta was flooded and siliciclastic deposition was pushed back, the delta top formed a wide shallow-water gently sloping surface.…”

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

Bassant

Buchem

Strasser

et al. 2005

Sedimentary Geology

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“…Deformation occurred at a similar time from the progressive and diachronous (e.g., Robertson et al, 2004) closure of the Neotethyan Ocean at the southern margin of the Tauride block and from emplacement of the Lycian Nappes (e.g., Şengör et al, 1985;Kelling et al, 1987; on June 14, 2015 gsabulletin.gsapubs.org Downloaded from Williams et al, 1995;Robertson, 2000;Hüs-ing et al, 2009). Oligocene to early Miocene terrestrial sedimentation in basins spanning the Central Taurides attests to an early phase of topographic development in response to these deformational events (e.g., Robertson, 2002, 2005;Bassant et al, 2005;Eriş et al, 2005;Şafak et al, 2005), which may in part relate to the broadly coeval onset of extension in Central Anatolia (e.g., Whitney and Dilek, 1997;Dilek et al, 1999;Dilek and Whitney, 2000). In central Turkey, the Tauride and Pontide orogenic belts now form the northern and southern margins of the Central Anatolian Plateau, respectively, and they are currently separated by an ~350-km-wide, 1-1.5-kmhigh region ( Fig.…”

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Late Miocene surface uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Central Taurides, Turkey

Cosentino

Schildgen

Cipollari

et al. 2011

Geological Society of America Bulletin

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The timing and pattern of surface uplift of Miocene marine sediments capping the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau in southern Turkey provide a fi rst-order constraint on possible mechanisms of regional uplift. Nannofossil, ostracod, and planktic foraminifera biostratigraphy of the Başyayla section (Mut-Ermenek Basin) within the Mut and Köselerli Formations suggests a Tortonian age for marine sediments unconformably capping basement rocks at ~2 km elevation. The identifi cation of biozone MMi 12a (7.81-8.35 Ma) from planktic foraminifera in the upper part of the section provides the tightest constraint on the age, which is further limited to 8.35-8.108 Ma as a result of the reverse polarity of the collected samples (chron 4r.1r or 4r.2r). This provides a limiting age for the onset of surface uplift at the margin of one of the world's major orogenic plateaus, from which an average uplift rate of 0.24-0.25 mm/yr can be calculated.Subhorizontal beds of the uppermost marine sediments exposed throughout the Mut-Ermenek Basin suggest minimal localized deformation, with just minor faulting at the basin margin and broad antiformal deformation across the basin. This implies that the post-8 Ma uplift mechanism must be rooted deep within the crust or in the upper mantle. Published Pn-wave velocity data for the region are compatible with topography compensated by asthenosphere across the southern margin of the plateau, showing a close match to the highest topography when elevations are fi ltered with a 100-km-wide smoothing window. Uplift along the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau is also refl ected by the pattern of Miocene marine sediments capping the margin, which form an asymmetric drape fold over the topography. These observations, together with tomographic evidence for slab steepening and break-off beneath the Eastern Anatolian Plateau, suggest that at least some of the ~2 km of post-8 Ma uplift of the southern Central Anatolian Plateau margin is compensated by low-density asthenospheric mantle that upwelled following slab break-off. their employment. Individual scientists are hereby granted permission, without fees or furtherCopyright not claimed on content prepared wholly by U.S. government employees within scope of Notes

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Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of an Early Miocene incised valley-fill (Derinçay Formation) in the Mut Basin, Southern Turkey

Cited by 28 publications

References 18 publications

Middle-Upper Miocene paleogeography of southern Turkey: insights from stratigraphy and calcareous nannofossil biochronology of the Olukpınar and Başyayla sections (Mut-Ermenek Basin)

Middle-Upper Miocene paleogeography of southern Turkey: insights from stratigraphy and calcareous nannofossil biochronology of the Olukpınar and Başyayla sections (Mut-Ermenek Basin)

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

Late Miocene surface uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau, Central Taurides, Turkey

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