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New Results On The Lithostratigraphy Of The Kazdağ Massif In Northwest Turkey, Mehmet Duru, Şükrü Pehli̇van, Yalçin Şentürk, Fatma Yavaş, Hüseyi̇n Kar
New Results On The Lithostratigraphy Of The Kazdağ Massif In Northwest Turkey, Mehmet Duru, Şükrü Pehli̇van, Yalçin Şentürk, Fatma Yavaş, Hüseyi̇n Kar
Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences
The high-grade metamorphic rocks of the Kazdağ mountain range, termed the Kazdağ Group, crop out as a tectonic window under the Karakaya Complex in northwestern Turkey. The Kazdağ Group forms a doubly plunging, NE-SW-trending anticliniorium. During our regional geological mapping of the Kazdağ Group, we have subdivided the metamorphic rocks into four formations. The lowermost unit is the Fındıklı formation, which comprises amphibole-gneiss, marble and minor amphibolite. It crops out mainly in the southern part of the Kazdağ Massif. The marble horizons within the Fındıklı formation have been named the Altınoluk and Babadağ marble members. The overlying unit, comprising metadunite …
Halitpaşa Transpressive Zone: Implications For An Early Pliocene Compressional Phase In Central Western Anatolia, Turkey, Orhan Kaya, Engi̇n Ünay, Gerçek Saraç, Silke Eichhorn, Sabine Hassenrück, Andrea Knappe, Asaf Pekdeğer, Serdar Mayda
Halitpaşa Transpressive Zone: Implications For An Early Pliocene Compressional Phase In Central Western Anatolia, Turkey, Orhan Kaya, Engi̇n Ünay, Gerçek Saraç, Silke Eichhorn, Sabine Hassenrück, Andrea Knappe, Asaf Pekdeğer, Serdar Mayda
Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences
The Late Cenozoic evolution of the eastern Aegean is dominated by widespread continental extension. The most prominent structures are E-W- and NE-SW-trending grabens and intervening horsts, while NW-SE- and N-S-trending faults form the other less important structures. This paper documents the results of recent geological mapping and structural and stratigraphical analysis from the Halitpaşa half graben, which forms the northwestern continuation of the Gediz Graben. Field evidence for a new NW-SE-trending dextral wrench-dominated fault zone (here named the Halitpaşa transpression zone), which involved the thrusting of pre-Palaeogene basement onto Upper Miocene-Lower Pliocene sediments, is presented. The fault zone is correlated …