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Nature, Provenance And Relationships Of Early Miocene Palaeovalley Fills, Northern Adana Basin, Turkey: Their Significance For Sediment-Bypassing On A Carbonate Shelf, A. Sami̇ Derman, Kemal Gürbüz

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The Gildirli Formation is the oldest Neogene rock unit in the Adana Basin and was formed prior to the regionally extensive Early Miocene marine transgression. These coarse clastic red-beds provide important evidence about the causes and early phases of filling in this large trough, because the Gildirli Formation sediments fill an irregular palaeotopography carved out of Palaeozoic and Mesozoic basement rocks. Detailed study of the Gildirli Formation reveals the existence of at least two alluvial fans supplied from different source areas. A northeastern fan, exposed around Gildirli Village, was fed by streams draining an area of ophiolitic mélange, Mesozoic and …