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Late Cenozoic tectono-sedimentary development of the Selendi and Uşak-Güre basins: a contribution to the discussion on the development of east–west and north trending basins in western Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

GÜROL SEYİTOĞLU
GÜROL SEYİTOĞLU
Affiliation:
Ankara Üniversitesi, Fen Fakültesi, Jeoloji Müh. Bl., TR-06100 Tandoğan, Ankara, Turkey
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Abstract

This paper expands the K–Ar dating and palynologically controlled stratigraphical data base reported in earlier papers to the north trending Selendi and Uşak-Güre basins located to the north of east–west trending Alaşehir graben in western Turkey. These north trending basins began to form during Early Miocene times and most of their basin fills accumulated before 14 Ma, except for the youngest Asartepe formation. Recent studies of both east–west grabens and north trending basins show that they started to develop simultaneously during Early Miocene times under the north–south extensional regime, and the classification of the structures as ‘replacement’ and ‘revolutionary’ has no meaning for the Alaşehir graben and the basins located to its north.

Type
Research Article
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 134 , Issue 2 , March 1997 , pp. 163 - 175
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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