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Oligocene History Of The Çardak - Dazkırı Subbasin (Denizli, Sw Turkey): Integrated Molluscan And Planktonic Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy, Yeşi̇m İslamoğlu, Aynur Hakyemez Jan 2010

Oligocene History Of The Çardak - Dazkırı Subbasin (Denizli, Sw Turkey): Integrated Molluscan And Planktonic Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy, Yeşi̇m İslamoğlu, Aynur Hakyemez

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The detailed analysis of molluscan and planktonic foraminiferal fauna in the Oligocene Çardak-Dazkırı sub-basin, in northeastern Denizli provin ce (western Turkey) allowed accurate dating of the deposits, together with interpretation of their depositional environments. Gastropod, bivalve, scaphopod and planktonic foraminiferal assemblages identified in ten sections reveal a succession which was deposited between the Late Rupelian and Early Chattian. Planktonic foraminifera, documented for the first time in the basin, indicate the P19 Zone (Turborotalia ampliapertura Zone) of the Late Rupelian at the base of the succession whereas Molluscan fauna, determined for the first time in this study, assign the whole succession, …


A New Species Of Polyconites From The Lower Aptian Of Iberia And The Early Evolution Of Polyconitid Rudists, Peter W. Skelton, Eulàlia Gili, Telm Bover-Arnal, Ramon Salas, Josep Anton Moreno-Bedmar Jan 2010

A New Species Of Polyconites From The Lower Aptian Of Iberia And The Early Evolution Of Polyconitid Rudists, Peter W. Skelton, Eulàlia Gili, Telm Bover-Arnal, Ramon Salas, Josep Anton Moreno-Bedmar

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The main diagnostic character of polyconitid rudists is a distinctive ectomyophoral cavity inserted behind a reflexed posterior myophoral plate in the left valve. The only pre-Aptian Old World polyconitid taxon recognized in the current literature is Horiopleura dumortieri (Matheron): this species clearly shows the prominent posterior myophoral shelf in the right valve that is diagnostic of the genus, which continues into the Albian. Polyconites, by contrast, has a more depressed (operculiform) left valve and its posterior adductor was inserted on an inward-sloping swelling on the right valve inner wall, with no projecting shelf. Hitherto, the earliest known species of Polyconites …


Stratigraphy And Larger Foraminifera Of The Eocene Shallow-Marine And Olistostromal Units Of The Southern Part Of The Thrace Basin, Nw Turkey, Ercan Özcan, György Less, Aral İ. Okay, Mária Báldi-Beke, Katalin Kollányi, İsmai̇l Ömer Yilmaz Jan 2010

Stratigraphy And Larger Foraminifera Of The Eocene Shallow-Marine And Olistostromal Units Of The Southern Part Of The Thrace Basin, Nw Turkey, Ercan Özcan, György Less, Aral İ. Okay, Mária Báldi-Beke, Katalin Kollányi, İsmai̇l Ömer Yilmaz

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The Eocene marine sequence in the southern part of the Thrace Basin (NW Turkey) involves a variety of platform and deep-marine olistostromal units, the stratigraphy of which have been vigorously debated in the past. A detailed analysis of larger foraminifera in these either foraminifera or foraminifera-coral-coralline algae-dominated platform and associated comparatively deeper-marine units permits us to establish a high-resolution biostratigraphy in the context of shallow benthic zonation (with SBZ zones) of Tethyan Paleogene. The oldest zone (SBZ 5, corresponding to the basal Ypresian) was observed only in olistoliths. An old erosional remnant of a transgressive shallow-marine to basinal sequence (Dişbudak …


Mineral And Whole-Rock Geochemistry Of The Kestanbol Granitoid (Ezine-Çanakkale) And Its Mafic Microgranular Enclaves In Northwestern Anatolia: Evidence Of Felsic And Mafic Magma Interaction, Sabah Yilmaz Şahi̇n, Yüksel Örgün, Yildirim Güngör, A. Feti̇ Göker, A. Haydar Gülteki̇n, Zeki̇ye Karacik Jan 2010

Mineral And Whole-Rock Geochemistry Of The Kestanbol Granitoid (Ezine-Çanakkale) And Its Mafic Microgranular Enclaves In Northwestern Anatolia: Evidence Of Felsic And Mafic Magma Interaction, Sabah Yilmaz Şahi̇n, Yüksel Örgün, Yildirim Güngör, A. Feti̇ Göker, A. Haydar Gülteki̇n, Zeki̇ye Karacik

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The Miocene Kestanbol granitoid, in Ezine-Çanakkale, Turkey, is one of post-collision granitoids of western Anatolia, which have been related to the the late Cretaceous collision between the Anatolide-Tauride platform and the Pontides. Magmatism began during the early Miocene, with coeval alkaline to calc-alkaline plutonism and volcanism, controlled by the regional tectonic evolution. The Kestanbol pluton intruded regionally metamorphosed basement rocks. Volcanic and volcano-clastic sedimentary rocks overlie the pluton, which is bounded in the west and east by major faults. The pluton is frequently cut by felsic and mafic dykes and includes mafic microgranular enclaves (MMEs) that are mixing products of …


Volcanic Rocks From Foça-Karaburun And Ayvalik-Lesvos Grabens (Western Anatolia) And Their Petrogenetic-Geodynamic Significance, Samuele Agostini, Murat Tokçaer, Mehmet Yilmaz Savaşçin Jan 2010

Volcanic Rocks From Foça-Karaburun And Ayvalik-Lesvos Grabens (Western Anatolia) And Their Petrogenetic-Geodynamic Significance, Samuele Agostini, Murat Tokçaer, Mehmet Yilmaz Savaşçin

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The Foça-Karaburun and Ayvalık-Lesvos grabens (western coast of Anatolia, Turkey) are two important NW-SE-trending extensional areas generated in response to the Early Miocene-Holocene extension of the Western Anatolian region, related to the opening of the "unconventional" back-arc basin of the Aegean Sea. The abundance of geo-structural evidence and the occurrence of volcanic rocks representing all the stages of the Aegean-Western Anatolia volcanism render the Foça-Karaburun and Ayvalık-Lesvos Grabens key localities to exemplify the petrogenetic and geodynamic evolution of the area. In this context, the Foça-Karaburun and Ayvalık-Lesvos grabens, possibly formerly a single graben, formed along an original NE-SW-trending extension, later …


Statistical Evaluation Of Classification Diagrams For Altered Igneous Rocks, Surendra P. Verma, Rodolfo Rodriguez Rios, Rosalinda González-Ramírez Jan 2010

Statistical Evaluation Of Classification Diagrams For Altered Igneous Rocks, Surendra P. Verma, Rodolfo Rodriguez Rios, Rosalinda González-Ramírez

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) has proposed recommendations for the classification of relatively fresh volcanic rocks, but with no specific instructions for altered volcanic rocks, other than discouraging the use of the total alkalis versus silica diagram. The Nb/Y-Zr/TiO2 diagram has been in use for the classification of altered rocks now for over 30 years. Recently (during 2007) another diagram (Co-Th) has been proposed to replace this old diagram, particularly for altered arc rocks. Using an extensive database of all kinds of relatively fresh rocks from four tectonic settings (island arc, continental rift, ocean island, and mid-ocean ridge), …


Petrography And Geochemistry Of The Jajarm Bauxite Ore Deposit, Northeast Iran: Implications For Source Rock Material And Ore Genesis, Dariush Esmaeily, Hosein Rahimpour-Bonab, Amir Esna-Ashari, Ali Kananian Jan 2010

Petrography And Geochemistry Of The Jajarm Bauxite Ore Deposit, Northeast Iran: Implications For Source Rock Material And Ore Genesis, Dariush Esmaeily, Hosein Rahimpour-Bonab, Amir Esna-Ashari, Ali Kananian

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The Jajarm bauxite deposit, northeast Iran, is the largest such deposit in Iran. The deposit is sandwiched between the Triassic Elika formation and the Jurassic Shemshak formation, housed within karstic features developed within the former unit. The deposit generally shows an internal layering defined by the following four distinct horizons (from bottom to top): (a) a lower argillaceous horizon, approximately 50-80 cm thick, is mainly composed of clay minerals that directly overlies the carbonate footwall (Elika formation); (b) a bauxitic clay layer approximately 2-3 m thick that consists mainly of hematite, kaolinite, anatase, and diaspore; (c) a red bauxite layer …


Debrunia Occitanica Nov. Sp. (Monopleuridae) From The Early Aptian Of Se France, Mükerrem Fenerci̇-Masse, Jean-Pierre Masse Jan 2010

Debrunia Occitanica Nov. Sp. (Monopleuridae) From The Early Aptian Of Se France, Mükerrem Fenerci̇-Masse, Jean-Pierre Masse

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Debrunia occitanica nov. sp., described from the early Aptian platform limestones of SE France, is characterized by: a moderately convex left valve, inconspicuous radial bands and a ligament groove in a depression flanked by two longitudinal rounded edges. Debrunia occitanica nov. sp. is considered as a chronospecies belonging to a single lineage rooted in the Barremian, and including Debrunia bruni and Debrunia mutabilis. Evolutionary trends in the three species include flattening of the left valve, development of the corresponding myophores, and reduction of the radial bands. This new species has the potential to be a stratigraphic marker for the early …


Albian Rudist Fauna From The Karaburun Peninsula, İzmir Region, Western Turkey, Jean-Pierre Masse, Mükerrem Fenerci̇-Masse, İsmai̇l Işintek, Tali̇p Güngör Jan 2010

Albian Rudist Fauna From The Karaburun Peninsula, İzmir Region, Western Turkey, Jean-Pierre Masse, Mükerrem Fenerci̇-Masse, İsmai̇l Işintek, Tali̇p Güngör

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Platform carbonates bearing shallow water foraminifera and dasycladale assemblages with an Albian stratigraphic significance, crop out at two localities on the Karaburun Peninsula: Barbaros and Zeytineli. Rudist faunas collected from these localities include Toucasia seunesi Douvillé, Pseudotoucasia catalaunica Astre , Mathesia darderi (Astre), Petalodontia ? sp., and Eoradiolites sp. aff. murgensis. The overall stratigraphic significance of this fauna is consistent with the Albian age derived from micropalaeontological data. Some taxonomic elements, e.g. Toucasia seunesi, Pseudotoucasia catalaunica and Mathesia darderi possess a broad Mediterranean palaeobiogeographic distribution. By contrast, Eoradiolites sp. aff. murgensis, an advanced form resembling Eoradiolites murgensis, restricted to the …


Distribution And Abundance Of Rudist Bivalves In The Cretaceous Platform Sequences In Egypt: Time And Space, Mohamed S. Zakhera Jan 2010

Distribution And Abundance Of Rudist Bivalves In The Cretaceous Platform Sequences In Egypt: Time And Space, Mohamed S. Zakhera

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

As the rudist bivalves represent important organic buildups in the Cretaceous platform sequences, this study emphasizes vertical and spatial distribution of this group of bivalves in the geographic divisions of Egypt, including Western Desert, Eastern Desert and Sinai. Rudists are encountered in different rock facies ranging from mudstones to carbonates. About sixty eight species belong to twenty one genera are reported from Egypt. They belong to six families: Requieniidae, Monopleuridae, Caprotinidae, Caprinidae, Hippuritidae, and Radiolitidae. The Radiolitidae is the most diverse family, comprising eleven genera and fifty-one species, dominated by species of Radiolites, Eoradiolites and Durania. The elevator morphotype of …


Basement Types, Lower Eocene Series, Upper Eocene Olistostromes And The Initiation Of The Southern Thrace Basin, Nw Turkey, Aral İ. Okay, Ercan Özcan, William Cavazza, Ni̇lgün Okay, György Less Jan 2010

Basement Types, Lower Eocene Series, Upper Eocene Olistostromes And The Initiation Of The Southern Thrace Basin, Nw Turkey, Aral İ. Okay, Ercan Özcan, William Cavazza, Ni̇lgün Okay, György Less

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The Eocene sequence of the southern Thrace Basin unconformably overlies two types of basement: (1) Slate, limestone and phyllite crop out in small inliers under the Upper Eocene conglomerates and limestones in the Mecidiye region, north of Saros Bay. These low-grade metamorphic rocks form the eastern extension of the Circum-Rhodope Belt of Greece. (2) In the Şarköy region south of the Ganos Fault, tectonically elevated basement consisting of serpentinite, metadiabase and Upper Cretaceous blueschists is unconformably overlain by the upper Bartonian to lower Priabonian shallow marine limestones of the Soğucak Formation. In some places erosional remnants of an upper Ypresian …


Surface And Subsurface Characteristics Of The Çankırı Basin (Central Anatolia, Turkey): Integration Of Remote Sensing, Seismic Interpretation And Gravity, Nuretdi̇n Kaymakçi, Şenol Özmutlu, Paul M. Van Van Dijk, Yakup Özçeli̇k Jan 2010

Surface And Subsurface Characteristics Of The Çankırı Basin (Central Anatolia, Turkey): Integration Of Remote Sensing, Seismic Interpretation And Gravity, Nuretdi̇n Kaymakçi, Şenol Özmutlu, Paul M. Van Van Dijk, Yakup Özçeli̇k

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The geology of the Çankırı Basin has been studied using multi-source data including satellite images, aerial photos, gravimetric data and seismic sections, which are subsequently used to generate maps and a 3D model of that part of the basin covered by the seismic sections. From the compilation, three different phases of deformation are recognized. The earliest phase is characterized by thrusting during the Early Tertiary. The second deformation phase is characterized by extensional deformation associated with normal faulting in the latest Early Miocene to Middle Miocene. The third, and the last, phase is characterized by compressional deformation manifested by inversion …


Statistical Evaluation Of Bivariate, Ternary And Discriminant Function Tectonomagmatic Discrimination Diagrams, Surendra P. Verma Jan 2010

Statistical Evaluation Of Bivariate, Ternary And Discriminant Function Tectonomagmatic Discrimination Diagrams, Surendra P. Verma

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

This work applies a statistical methodology involving the calculation of success rates to evaluate a total of 28 tectonomagmatic discrimination diagrams: four bivariate (Ti/Y-Zr/Y; Zr-Zr/Y; Ti/1000-V; and Nb/Y-Ti/Y); six ternary (Zr-3Y-Ti/1000; MgO-Al2O3-FeOt, Th-Ta-Hf/3; 10MnO-15P2O5-TiO2; Zr/4-Y-2Nb; and La/10-Nb/8-Y/15); and three old (Score1-Score2; F1-F2; and F2-F3) and three sets of new discriminant function diagrams (each set consisting of five DF1-DF2 type diagrams proposed during 2004-2008). I established and used extensive geochemical databases of Miocene to Recent fresh rocks from island arcs, back arcs, continental rifts, ocean-islands, and mid-ocean ridges. Rock and magma types were inferred from a SINCLAS computer program. Although some …


Testing Miocene Remagnetization Of Bey Dağları: Timing And Amount Of Neogene Rotations In Sw Turkey, Douwe J.J. Van Hinsbergen, Mark J. Dekkers, Ayten Koç Jan 2010

Testing Miocene Remagnetization Of Bey Dağları: Timing And Amount Of Neogene Rotations In Sw Turkey, Douwe J.J. Van Hinsbergen, Mark J. Dekkers, Ayten Koç

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Here we reassess the timing and amount of rotation of the eastern limb of the Aegean orocline, located in SW Turkey. The current model for this orocline involves a 25-30° counterclockwise (CCW) rotation of the Bey Dağları region, which exposes upper Cretaceous to Eocene platform carbonates and lower Miocene flysch deposits. In this model the rotation has to postdate a Miocene remagnetization, which would not exclude non-synchroneity between rotations of the western and eastern limbs of the Aegean orocline. To test this model a detailed palaeomagnetic study was conducted on lower Miocene strata in the Bey Dağları area. Two (composite) …


Displacements And Kinematics Of The February 1, 1944 Gerede Earthquake (North Anatolian Fault System, Turkey): Geodetic And Geological Constraints, Mehmet Emi̇n Ayhan, Ali̇ Koçyi̇ği̇t Jan 2010

Displacements And Kinematics Of The February 1, 1944 Gerede Earthquake (North Anatolian Fault System, Turkey): Geodetic And Geological Constraints, Mehmet Emi̇n Ayhan, Ali̇ Koçyi̇ği̇t

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The North Anatolian Fault System (NAFS) is an approximately 2-110-km-wide, 1600-km-long right-lateral intra-continental transform fault boundary between the Anatolian platelet and the Eurasian plate. The Gerede fault zone is one of the major active structures in the western section of the NAFS. It is a 1-9-km-wide, 325-km-long and ENE-trending dextral strike-slip fault zone, with a total accumulated offset since its initiation (Late Pliocene) of about 43 km. This offset indicates an average geological slip rate of 16.5 mm/yr. The 1 February 1944 Gerede earthquake occurred within the Gerede fault zone. Based on recent field geological mapping of the rupture traces …


Tsunami Hazard Assessment On The Southern Coast Of Spain, Mauricio González, Raul Medina, Maitane Olabarrieta, Luis Otero Jan 2010

Tsunami Hazard Assessment On The Southern Coast Of Spain, Mauricio González, Raul Medina, Maitane Olabarrieta, Luis Otero

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

In this study an indirect statistical method has been proposed to estimate the tsunami hazard assessment along the Alborán Sea Coast (Southeastern Spanish Coast). This method can be summarized as: (1) analysis of the global neotectonic setting, including geodynamic processes as well as seismicity of the region; (2) tsunami source model; (3) generation of a numerical data base of tsunami events using a numerical model; (4) probabilistic model based on Monte-Carlo simulations in order to generate a synthetic tsunami catalogue; and (5) a multidimensional interpolation method applied to combine the numerical data base with the synthetic catalogue to produce inundation …


The Impact Of Tsunamis On The Island Of Majorca Induced By North Argelian Seismic Sources, José A. Álvarez-Gómez, Maitane Olabarrieta, Mauricio González, Luís Otero, Emilio Carreño, José M. Martínez-Solares Jan 2010

The Impact Of Tsunamis On The Island Of Majorca Induced By North Argelian Seismic Sources, José A. Álvarez-Gómez, Maitane Olabarrieta, Mauricio González, Luís Otero, Emilio Carreño, José M. Martínez-Solares

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The north of Algeria is the main earthquake-related tsunami generation zone that threatens the Balearic Islands. In this work we review the major seismic series of the area -the 1980 El Asnam and the 2003 Boumerdes-Zemmouri earthquakes– in order to obtain a probable worst characteristic earthquake rupture. We estimate rupture dimensions of 55 km x 16 km, reaching the fault plane a depth of 13 km. The dip and rake have been taken as constants, with values of 50° and 90° respectively, while the strike is adjusted to the local tectonic structure. With these characteristics a magnitude M_w= 7.3 earthquake …


Sensitivity Analysis On Relations Between Earthquake Source Rupture Parameters And Far-Field Tsunami Waves: Case Studies In The Eastern Mediterranean Region, Seda Yolsal, Tuncay Taymaz Jan 2010

Sensitivity Analysis On Relations Between Earthquake Source Rupture Parameters And Far-Field Tsunami Waves: Case Studies In The Eastern Mediterranean Region, Seda Yolsal, Tuncay Taymaz

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

We present several sensitivity tests, that were applied to exhibit the effects of earthquake source rupture characteristics on amplitudes, frequency contents and arrival times of earthquake generated tsunami waves in the far field, as case studies in the eastern Mediterranean. The investigated earthquake parameters are principally epicentral location, focal mechanism parameters (strike, dip and rake angles), faulting area dimensions, maximum displacement and focal (centroid) depth. We have implemented a numerical method of TUNAMI-N2 based on non-linear shallow-water theory to obtain synthetic water surface fluctuations at selected pseudo tide gauge locations in the eastern Mediterranean. It has been observed that the …


Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy And Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction Of The Paleocene–Eocene Transition At The Kharrouba Section, Tunisia (Southern Tethys Margin), Lamia Zili, Dalila Zaghbib-Turki Jan 2010

Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy And Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction Of The Paleocene–Eocene Transition At The Kharrouba Section, Tunisia (Southern Tethys Margin), Lamia Zili, Dalila Zaghbib-Turki

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

At Kharrouba (near Tunis City in northern Tunisia), on the southern margin of the Tethyan realm, the Paleocene-Eocene (P-E) transition interval deposition is continuous and complete. Based on high-resolution analysis and quantitative data of planktonic and benthic foraminifera at the Kharrouba section, this transition interval records expanded deposition of the relevant standard planktonic foraminiferal biozones with indicative index species i.e.: Morozovella velascoensis for the latest Paleocene P5 zone, and Acarinina sibaiyaensis for the earliest Eocene E1 zone, Pseudohastigerina wilcoxensis for the E2 zone, Morozovella marginodentata for the E3 zone and Morozovella formosa for the E4 zone. This complete section contains …


Thermal Evolution Of The Permo−Triassic Karakaya Subduction-Accretion Complex Between The Biga Peninsula And The Tokat Massif (Anatolia), Ilaria Federici, William Cavazza, Aral Okay, Olivier Beyssac, Massimiliano Zattin, Sveva Corrado, Francesco Dellisanti Jan 2010

Thermal Evolution Of The Permo−Triassic Karakaya Subduction-Accretion Complex Between The Biga Peninsula And The Tokat Massif (Anatolia), Ilaria Federici, William Cavazza, Aral Okay, Olivier Beyssac, Massimiliano Zattin, Sveva Corrado, Francesco Dellisanti

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The results of the combined application of a series of analytical methods (clay mineralogy, vitrinite reflectance, Raman microspectroscopy) placed tight constraints on the thermal evolution of the Karakaya Complex of northern Anatolia, a mostly Permo-Triassic subduction-accretion complex resulting from the progressive closure of the Palaeotethys. The thermal evolution of the Karakaya Complex is the result of Permian-Triassic subduction-accretion processes, and was not significantly affected by later Alpine-age tectonism, as shown by Liassic shallow-water siliciclastic and carbonate deposits overlying unconformably the Karakaya Complex which did not undergo any significant burial. The Lower Karakaya Complex, comprising metabasite and subordinate marble and phyllite, …


Geochronological Evidence Of Pan-African Eclogites From The Central Menderes Massif, Turkey, Oberhaensli Roland, Osman Candan, Franziska Wilke Jan 2010

Geochronological Evidence Of Pan-African Eclogites From The Central Menderes Massif, Turkey, Oberhaensli Roland, Osman Candan, Franziska Wilke

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The Menderes Massif in western Anatolia documents a complex geodynamic history from Precambrian to recent. Eclogitic relics found in metagabbros in the Precambrian basement were dated by the U/Pb method. The zircon age data from granulitic (coronitic) and eclogitic metagabbros is consistent with geological constraints as well as relative and radiometric ages of the host granulitic gneisses and augen gneisses. A Pan-African intrusion age (540 Ma) of the metagabbros and a shortly later eclogite facies event (530 Ma) are inferred. This scenario fits with the geodynamic evolution deduced form the acidic country rocks of the eclogitic metagabbros. Direct links between …


Bala (Ankara) Earthquakes: Implications For Shallow Crustal Deformation In Central Anatolian Section Of The Anatolian Platelet (Turkey), Onur Tan, Mustafa Cengi̇z Tapirdamaz, Semi̇h Ergi̇ntav, Sedat İnan, Yildiz İravul, Ruhi̇ Saatçilar, Beki̇r Tüzel, Adi̇l Tarancioğlu, Sali̇h Karakisa, Recai̇ Feyi̇z Kartal, Sami̇ Zünbül, Kenan Yanik, Mehmet Kaplan, Fuat Şaroğlu, Ali̇ Koçyi̇ği̇t Jan 2010

Bala (Ankara) Earthquakes: Implications For Shallow Crustal Deformation In Central Anatolian Section Of The Anatolian Platelet (Turkey), Onur Tan, Mustafa Cengi̇z Tapirdamaz, Semi̇h Ergi̇ntav, Sedat İnan, Yildiz İravul, Ruhi̇ Saatçilar, Beki̇r Tüzel, Adi̇l Tarancioğlu, Sali̇h Karakisa, Recai̇ Feyi̇z Kartal, Sami̇ Zünbül, Kenan Yanik, Mehmet Kaplan, Fuat Şaroğlu, Ali̇ Koçyi̇ği̇t

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Central Anatolia is quiet in terms of seismic activity, and rarely earthquakes up to magnitude 5.6 occur in the inner part of the Anatolian block or Anatolian platelet. Southeast of Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, two earthquake sequences with maximum magnitude of 5.6 occurred in 2005 and 2007. We discuss these shallow crustal deformation in the Anatolian platelet, in the light of seismological data from these earthquakes (M_L= 5.6) and their aftershocks. Following the earthquake of December 20, 2007 near Bala town, Ankara, we installed seven temporary stations in the first 24 hours to observe the aftershock activity and …


Danielita Gailloti N.Gen., N. Sp., Within The Evolutionary Framework Of Middle-Late Permian Dagmaritins, Demi̇r Altiner, Sevi̇nç Özkan Altiner Jan 2010

Danielita Gailloti N.Gen., N. Sp., Within The Evolutionary Framework Of Middle-Late Permian Dagmaritins, Demi̇r Altiner, Sevi̇nç Özkan Altiner

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The name Danielita is proposed for a new dagmaritin genus characterized by a biserial arrangement of chambers with spine-like extensions at chamber corners and a perforated wall. Danielita differs from Dagmarita, from which it was derived, by a perforated wall and constitutes one of the peculiar evolutionary trends of the dagmaritin stock. Early dagmaritins evolved from Globivalvulina cyprica by the appearance of Sengoerina in the Capitanian and the frequently encountered association G. cyprica-Sengoerina-Dagmarita-Danielita in Turkey suggests that the evolutionary derivations of dagmaritin genera occurred very rapidly in the Capitanian. The subfamily Paradagmaritinae is synonymized under the subfamily Dagmaritinae. Among recently …


Application Of The Normalized Full Gradient (Nfg) Method To Resistivity Data, Ali̇ Aydin Jan 2010

Application Of The Normalized Full Gradient (Nfg) Method To Resistivity Data, Ali̇ Aydin

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

This paper proposes the application of the normalized full gradient (NFG) method to resistivity studies and illustrates that the method can greatly reduce the time and work load needed in detecting buried bodies using resistivity measurement. The NFG method calculates resistivity values at desired electrode offsets by extrapolation of a function of resistivity measurements (i.e. the gradient) to other depth levels using resistivity measurements done at one electrode offset only. The performance and reliability of the NFG method is tested on laboratory and field resistivity data from two sites by comparing the trend of the resistivity values at six or …


Ontogeny And Funtional Morphology Of A Lower Cretaceous Carpinid Rudist (Bivalvia, Hippuritoida), Robert W. Scott, Meghan Weaver Jan 2010

Ontogeny And Funtional Morphology Of A Lower Cretaceous Carpinid Rudist (Bivalvia, Hippuritoida), Robert W. Scott, Meghan Weaver

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Caprinuloidea rudists are locally abundant and widespread in Lower Cretaceous (Albian Stage) Edwards Formation in Texas. Landward of the shelf margin on the shallow marine Comanche Shelf rudists built circular and elongate bioherms with coarse-grained flank deposits. Two caprinid morphotypes suggest that some lived as elevators above the substrate and others were recumbent upon mobile grain flats. Elevators have elongated attached valves and weakly coiled free valves and recumbents have arcuate attached valves and strongly coiled free valves. Detailed morphologic studies are not possible on the many molds and casts, but a few specimens are silicified. Their internal structures can …


Mathesia Mainelli (Hippuritoidea, Monopleuridae) From The Late Aptian−Albian Of The Mediterranean Region: A Revision, Jean-Pierre Masse, Mükerrem Fenerci̇-Masse Jan 2010

Mathesia Mainelli (Hippuritoidea, Monopleuridae) From The Late Aptian−Albian Of The Mediterranean Region: A Revision, Jean-Pierre Masse, Mükerrem Fenerci̇-Masse

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Agria darderi Astre and Mathesia terticolloquiirudistarum Mainelli represent a single taxonomic entity: Mathesia darderi (Astre). Mathesia is characterized by an erect posterior myophoral plate and an anterior myophoral crest in the LV, the RV myophores being on the shell wall. A peculiar shell structure is observed in the RV: the junction between the outer calcitic shell layer and the inner formerly aragonitic shell layer is scalloped or festooned and usually includes longitudinal tubes. The overall morphological traits and myocardinal organisation of Mathesia are similar to those of Debrunia, although the latter lacks the scalloped or tubular inner shell features of …


Dictyoptychus Douvillé: Taxonomic Revision, Phylogeny And Biogeography, Saci̇t Özer Jan 2010

Dictyoptychus Douvillé: Taxonomic Revision, Phylogeny And Biogeography, Saci̇t Özer

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The late Campanian-Maastrichtian transgressive sequences of the southeastern Anatolia (northernmost part of the Arabian platform) and only one Maastrichtian limestone block within the ophiolitic association of the easternmost part of the Taurus Orogenic Belt contain very well-preserved specimens of Dictyoptychus Douvillé 1905. Study of Turkish specimens and also of those described in the literature reveals considerable ontogenic variability, hence need for revision of the species of the genus erected hitherto. Dictyoptychus leesi (Kühn 1929), Dictyoptychus paronai (Kühn 1929), Dictyoptychus persicus (Cox 1934), Dictyoptychus euphratica Karacabey-Öztemür 1979 and Dictyoptychus orontica Karacabey-Öztemür 1979 are accordingly re-interpreted to represent a single species synonymous …


Taxonomy Of Rudists From The Campanian Transgressive Sediments Of Brašljevica, Donje Orešje And Sv. Martin, Northern Croatia, Alan Moro, Vlasta Cosovic, Josip Benic, Jasmina Dokmanovic Jan 2010

Taxonomy Of Rudists From The Campanian Transgressive Sediments Of Brašljevica, Donje Orešje And Sv. Martin, Northern Croatia, Alan Moro, Vlasta Cosovic, Josip Benic, Jasmina Dokmanovic

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Rudists are common fossils in transgressive Upper Cretaceous deposits in three localities placed in northwestern part of Croatia. Their appearances coincide with the beginning of a transgressive sequence through floatstones-thickets. Within the rudist community, Vaccinites Fischer 1887, Hippurites Lamarck 1801 and Hippuritella Douvillé 1908 could be differentiated according to their general or generic morphological elements. The age of deposits was obtained from the Sr-isotope composition of the rudist shells as well as the micro- and nannofossil community from sediments overlying the rudists-bearing sediments at the Donje Oresje and Brasljevica localities. According to this data the age of the transgressive sediments …


Morphology, Taxonomy And Lifestyle Of The Maastrichtian Rudist Bivalve Thyrastylon, Simon Francis Mitchell Jan 2010

Morphology, Taxonomy And Lifestyle Of The Maastrichtian Rudist Bivalve Thyrastylon, Simon Francis Mitchell

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

The rudist bivalve Thyrastylon is redescribed based on extensive material collected from Jamaica. The new material shows that the left valve contains slits, and that this is the diagnostic feature of the genus. The genus is redefined as follows: a radiolitid rudist with no ligamental infold, stretched cellular microstructure and compact layers in the outer layer of the right valve; the radial bands are partially infolded into the shell layer of the right valve; the left valve has oscules developed above the radial bands and has concentric, slit-like pores that penetrate the shell and open out onto the inner part …


Campanian-Maastrichtian Pseudosabinia From Turkey: Descriptions And Taxonomic Problems, Saci̇t Özer Jan 2010

Campanian-Maastrichtian Pseudosabinia From Turkey: Descriptions And Taxonomic Problems, Saci̇t Özer

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Specimens of taxa assigned to Pseudosabinia Morris & Skelton, collected from the Campanian-Maastrichtian sequences of different regions of Turkey such as the Kocaeli Peninsula, Amasya, Bayburt (Pontides), Sivas, Malatya, Elazığ (eastern Anatolian platform) and Kahta-Adıyaman and Yaylaçiftliği-Antakya (northernmost part of the Arabian platform), are determined and the taxonomic statuses of the species are discussed. Pseudosabinia klinghardti (Böhm) uniquely presents all the characteristic features of the genus. Other species and subspecies assigned to the genus 'Pseudosabinia' rtanjica (Pejovic), 'Pseudosabinia' serbica (Kühn & Pejovic), 'Pseudosabinia' rtanjica triangularis (Karacabey) and 'Pseudosabinia' rtanjica tunisiensis (Philip) lack the cellular prismatic structure of the outer shell …