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PALAEOZOIC TECTONIC HISTORY OF SE TURKEY
Author(s) -
Cater J. M. L.,
Tunbridge I. P.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of petroleum geology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1747-5457
pISSN - 0141-6421
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-5457.1992.tb00864.x
Subject(s) - geology , paleozoic , paleontology , rift , ordovician , carboniferous , facies , cretaceous , subsidence , tectonics , marine transgression , fault (geology) , structural basin
A review of published data for the Palaeozoic of SE Turkey, together with facies distribution and palaeo‐fault maps derived from regional field data, are used to interpret the Palaeozoic tectonic history of the region. Intracratonic rifting events in the Early Cambrian and the Early Ordovician led to syn‐rift deposition within fault‐bounded basins. Marine transgressions across the region in the mid‐Cambrian and mid‐to‐Late Ordovician were probably influenced by regional thermal subsidence after each rifting event, in addition to (glacio‐)eustatic mechanisms. Marine transgressions in the Early Silurian and Early Carboniferous are thought to have been entirely eustatic in origin. Poorly‐constrained, Late Palaeozoic facies variations across the region can be related to uplift during the Caledonian and Hercynian orogenic episodes. Widespread tilting and erosion before the Cretaceous, which has removed much of the Late Palaeozoic record from this region, resulted from uplift at the edges of a major rift system which was initiated during the Triassic‐to‐Jurassic opening of the Southern Neotethys.