The mid-Cenozoic succession and evolution of the Mut basin, southern Turkey, and its regional significance

Stable isotope-based reconstruction of Oligo-Miocene paleoenvironment and paleohydrology of Central Anatolian lake basins (Turkey)

“…A mixed siliciclasticcarbonate succession of up to 1600 m thick makes up the Oligocene and Miocene basin fill, which overlies deformed Paleozoic and Mesozoic marine platform carbonates and dismembered ophiolites (Şafak et al 2005). The lithologically diverse succession of the Mut Basin is divided into 5 main lithostratigraphic units: (1) the deepwater, deltaic to lacustrine Yenimahalle Formation; (2) lacustrine siltstones and marls of the Fakırca Formation, overlain by (3) red beds of the Derinçay Formation and (4) upper Burdigalian-upper Tortonian marls and limestones ) of 11.7 m/Ma, as derived from 2 geochronological tie-points in the section; and 3 ) of 50 m/Ma, as derived from magnetostratigraphic data (Krijgsman et al 1996) (Gedik et al 1979;Tanar & Gökçen 1990;Şafak & Gökçen 1991;Ilgar & Nemec 2005;Şafak et al 2005;Cosentino et al 2012;Cipollari et al 2013). We sampled laminated silty marls of the Fakırca Formation (Figures 2b and 2c).…”

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

“…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).…”

“…Subsequently, during a quiescent tectonic period, 2 long-term transgressive-regressive cycles (second-order cycles) were responsible for changing the paleogeography of the marginal area of the Eastern Mediterranean Basin. The first transgression phase, happening early within the TB2 supercycle, started in the late Burdigalian with the deposition of marine deposits related to the evolution of platform-basin systems in both the Mut-Ermenek Basin (Mut and Köselerli formations; Tanar & Gökçen 1990;Şafak et al 2005) and in the Adana Basin (Karaisalı and Kaplankaya formations ;Gürbüz 1993;Gürbüz & Kelling 1993;Cronin et al 2000).…”

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

“…To the south, west and southeast of the study area, sedimentation and extension in the Adana, Mut and Manavgat basins appear to have started earlier, in the Early Miocene or locally perhaps in Late Oligocene time, and was marine in character (e.g. Burton-Ferguson et al, 2005;Çiner et al, 2008;Şafak et al, 2005). Our results may indicate that inception of Neogene extension started later in the north than in the south, consistent with the diachronous onset of sedimentation younging northwards from Cyprus .…”