MOLLUSCAN BİOSTRATİGRAPHY OF EARLY MİOCENE DEPOSİTS OF THE KALE-TAVAS AND ACIPAYAM BASİNS (DENİZLİ, SW TURKEY)

Indexed In

Volume 155 / 2017

Authors:

Yesim BUYUKMERİC

Keywords:

Aquitanian, Late Burdigalian, Mollusca, Paleobiogeography, Paleoecology, Stratigraphy.

Abstract:

In the present work, a stratigraphic framework of the early Miocene units of the Kale-Tavas and Acıpayam deposits is proposed.Two stratigraphic sections from the brackish-marine deposits of Aquitanian (Yenidere formation) and three sections from the shallow marine units of late Burdigalian (Kale formation) age have been logged. In total 26 mollusc species are identified similar to those of the areas in the Mediterranean province. The fauna indicates that the Mediterranean Tethys occupied the southwestern part of the Denizli region only during the early Miocene. A tectonic pulse in the basin during the early Miocene may have been very important to understand the limits of marine Tethyan influence in the area.

DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.19076/mta.332452