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Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Pleistocene

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Bioerosional Structures From The Late Pleistocene Coral Reef, Red Sea Coast, Northwest Saudi Arabia, Huri̇ye Demi̇rcan, Abdelbaset El Sorogy, Talal Alharbi Jan 2021

Bioerosional Structures From The Late Pleistocene Coral Reef, Red Sea Coast, Northwest Saudi Arabia, Huri̇ye Demi̇rcan, Abdelbaset El Sorogy, Talal Alharbi

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Herein, 20 ichnospecies belonging to 8 ichnogenera were identified in bivalves, gastropods, and corals (n = 701) from the Late Pleistocene coral reef along the Red Sea coast, northwest Saudi Arabia. The trace fossils were produced by clionid sponges (47.39%), endolithic bivalves (42.17%), polychaete annelids (5.42%), vermetid gastropods (3.81%), and acrothoracican barnacles (1.21%). The recognized ichnotaxa were Entobia geometrica, E. ovula, E. cf. goniodes, E. cf. retiformis, E. cretacea, Entobia isp., Gastrochaenolites torpedo, G. lapidicus, G. cf. dijugus, Gastrochaenolites isp., Oichnus paraboloides, O. simplex, Oichnus isp., Caulostrepsis taeniola, Caulostrepsis isp., Maeandropolydora cf. sulcans, Maeandropolydora isp., Renichnus isp., Centrichnus isp., and …


Clay Mineralogy Of Red Clay Deposits From The Central Carpathian Basin (Hungary): Implications For Plio-Pleistocene Chemical Weathering And Palaeoclimate, János Kovács, Béla Raucsik, Andrea Varga, Gabor Ujvari, György Varga, Franz Ottner Jan 2013

Clay Mineralogy Of Red Clay Deposits From The Central Carpathian Basin (Hungary): Implications For Plio-Pleistocene Chemical Weathering And Palaeoclimate, János Kovács, Béla Raucsik, Andrea Varga, Gabor Ujvari, György Varga, Franz Ottner

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Geochemical and mineralogical studies of palaeosols provide essential information for palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of continental deposits and can present a proxy for palaeoclimate. Red clays in the central Carpathian Basin (Hungary) (Tengelic Red Clay Formation; Kerecsend Red Clay Formation), overlain by loess-palaeosol sequences, were studied. Results from geochemical climofunctions applied to Upper Pliocene–Lower Pleistocene red clays and palaeosols located in the Carpathian Basin, and clay mineralogy, indicate that the palaeoclimate was considerably more humid and warmer during the Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene in comparison to modern values.


Timing Of The Quaternary Elazığ Volcanism, Eastern Turkey, And Its Significance For Constraining Landscape Evolution And Surface Uplift, Ali̇ Seyrek, Rob Westaway, Malcolm Pringle, Sema Yurtmen, Tuncer Demi̇r, George Rowbotham Jan 2008

Timing Of The Quaternary Elazığ Volcanism, Eastern Turkey, And Its Significance For Constraining Landscape Evolution And Surface Uplift, Ali̇ Seyrek, Rob Westaway, Malcolm Pringle, Sema Yurtmen, Tuncer Demi̇r, George Rowbotham

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The eastern part of the Anatolian plateau in eastern Turkey has experienced dramatic landscape evolution in the Late Cenozoic, surface uplift having been associated with the disruption of former lake basins and the development of the modern high-relief landscape, incised by the upper reaches of the River Euphrates and its major tributary, the Murat. Overall, the altitude of the plateau decreases gradually westward, and it has been assumed that uplift on any given timescale has varied regionally in a similar manner. However, using the Ar-Ar method, we have dated an episode of basaltic volcanism around the city of Elazığ to …