Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous depositional environments and evolution of the Bilecik (Sakarya Zone) and Tauride carbonate platforms, Turkey

YILMAZ İ. Ö., ALTINER D., OCAKOĞLU F.

PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY, vol.449, pp.321-340, 2016 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 449
  • Publication Date: 2016
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.02.028
  • Journal Name: PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.321-340
  • Keywords: Bilecik and Tauride platforms, Turkey, J/K boundary beds, Sea-level changes, Magnetic susceptibility, HIGH-RESOLUTION CORRELATION, JURASSIC/CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY, MAGNETIC-SUSCEPTIBILITY, SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY, ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY, SOUTHERN MENDOZA, WESTERN TAURIDES, PETROLEUM SYSTEM, MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY, SEDIMENTARY
  • Middle East Technical University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Three Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous carbonate platform stratigraphic sections have been studied in central western Turkey (Bilecik carbonate platform at Bilecik and Saricakaya) and in the Taurides in southern Turkey (Tauride carbonate platform at Beysehir) by using sedimentological and cyclostratigraphical methods. One section was analyzed by detailed magnetic susceptibility measurements. Peritidal carbonates on both platforms display cyclic patterns throughout the sections and do not contain any siliciclastic material. This cyclicity is generally expressed as shallowing upward cycles and interpreted as records of short-term sea-level changes.