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Late Cenozoic basin development in west Turkey: Gördes basin tectonics and sedimentation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Gürol Seyítoğlu  and
Barry C. Scott
Gürol Seyítoğlu
Affiliation:
Ankara Üniversitesi, Fen Fakültesi, Jeoloji, Müh. Bl., 06100 Beşevler, Ankara, Turkey
Barry C. Scott
Affiliation:
University of Leicester, Department of Geology, LE1 7RH, Leicester, UK
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Abstract

The early Miocene sedimentary succession in the northeast-southwest trending Gördes basin is 1000 m thick and divided into the Daĝdere, Tepeköy and Kuşlukköy formations. The age of this fill can be constrained as between 24.2 Ma and 16.3 Ma, at its widest interval. Paleocurrent directions from south to north demonstrate that the basin had a north dipping basin floor. These observations are inconsistent with a previous model of the Gordes basin as a cross graben with a south dipping basin floor, towards the Alaşehir graben, and an anomalously thick (up to 3000 m) basin filling.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 131 , Issue 5 , September 1994 , pp. 631 - 637
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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