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Stratigraphy, Geochemistry And Depositional Environment Of The Celestine-Bearing Gypsiferous Formations Of The Tertiary Ulaş-Sivas Basin, East-Central Anatolia (Turkey), Erdoğan Teki̇n

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Celestine-bearing evaporite mineralization is widespread in the Tertiary evaporitic units of the Ulaş-Sivas Basin, east-central Anatolia. The oldest deposition of gypsum, which is of laminated character, occurred in a shallow inner-lagoonal environment or in depressions during Late Eocene regression. Thick gypsum and overlying beds composed of alternating bedded, nodular gypsum and sandstone developed in coastal sabkhas and abandoned channels within a meander-river complex during Oligocene time. The last occurrence of evaporitic units, namely massive and bedded gypsum alternating with sandstones and fossiliferous limestones, resulted from limited marine transgression of an Early Miocene sea along the southern margin of the Sivas …