Uppermost Triassic Limestone in the Karakaya Complex-stratigraphic and tectonic significance

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 187-199

  Okay, Aral I ^a   Altiner, Demir ^b  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Karakaya Complex; Noria; Northwestern Turkey; Reefal limestone; Rhaetian

Indexed keywords

LIMESTONE; REGIONAL METAMORPHISM; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TECTONIC SETTING; TRIASSIC;

EURASIA; PONTIDES; TURKEY;

EID: 3242802765     PISSN: 13000985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. AKYÜREK, B. & SOYSAL, Y. 1983. Biga yarimadasi güneyinin (Savaştepe-Kirkaǧaç-Bergama-Ayvalik) temel jeoloji özellikleri [Basic geological characteristics of the southern Biga Peninsula (Savaştepe-Kirkaǧaç-Bergama-Ayvalik area ]. Maden Tetkik ve Arama Enstitüsü (MTA) Dergisi 95/96, 1-13 [in Turkish with English abstract].
2. ALKAYA, F. 1981. Bilecik yöresi Lias ammonit zonlari [Liassic ammonite zones in the Bilecik area]. Istanbul Yerbilimleri 1, 297-302 [in Turkish with English abstract].
3. AL-SHAIBANI, S.K., CARTER, D.J. & ZANINETTI, L. 1983. Geological and micropaleontological investigations in the Upper Trassic (Asinepe Limestone) of Seram, Outer Banda Arc, Indonesia. Archives des Sciences 36, 297-313.
4. ALTINER, D. & KOÇYIǦIT, A. 1992. Kuzeybati Anadolu güneyinin Jura-Erken Kretase'deki paleocoǧrafik evrimi [Palaeogeographic evolution of the south of northwestern Anatolian during Jurassic-Early Cretaceous]. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 1, 1-9 [in Turkish with English abstract].
5. ALTINER, D., ÖZKAN-ALTINER, S. & KOÇYIǦIT, A. 2000. Late Permian foraminiferal biofacies belts in Turkey: palaeogeographic and tectonic implications. In: BOZKURT, E., WINCHESTER, J.A. & PIPER, J.A.D. (eds), Tectonics and Magmatism in Turkey and Surrounding Area. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 173, 83-96.
6. ALTINER, D., KOÇYIǦIT, A., FARINACCI, A., NICOSIA, U. & CONTI, M.A. 1991. Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous stratigraphy and paleogeographic evolution of the southern part of north-western Anatolia. Geologica Romana 27, 13-80.
7. ALTINER, D., ZANINETTI, L., MARTINI, R. & ALKAN, H. 1992. Siculocosta floriformis, n. sp., (Siculocostidae, Milioliporacea), un noveau foraminifère du Trias supérieur (Norien-Rhétien) récifal du Taurus occidental (Nappes Lyciennes), Turquie. Revue de Paléobiologie 11, 313-322.
8. ASLANER, M. 1965. Etude geologique et petrographique de la region d'edremit-Havran (Turquie). Publication of the Maden Tetkik ve Arama Enstitüsü (MTA), Special Publication 119, 98 p.
9. AYGEN T. 1956. Etude géologique de la région de Balya. Publication of the Maden Tetkik ve Arama Enstitüsü (MTA), Special Publication D 11, 95 p.
10. th Annevarsary of Republic of Turkey, Abstracts), 70-77 [in Turkish with English abstract].
11. Di STEFANO, P., GULLO, M. & SENOWBARI-DARYAN, B. 1990. The Upper Triassic reef of M. Genuardo (western Sicily). Bollettino di Societá Geologica Italiana 109, 103-114.
12. DULLO, W. C. 1980. Paläontologie, Fazies und Geochimie der Dachstein-Kalke (Ober-Trias) im südwestlichen Gesäuse, Steiermark, Österreich. Facies 2, 55-122.
13. ERK, A.S. 1942. Etude géologique de la région entre Gemlik et Bursa (Turquie). Maden Tetkik ve Arama Enstitüsü (MTA), Special Publication B 9, 295 p.
14. FABRICIUS, F.H. 1968. Calcareous sea bottoms of the Rhaetian and Lower Jurassic sea from the west part of the Northern Calcareous Alps. In: MÜLLER, G. & FRIEDMAN, G.M. (eds), Carbonate Sedimentology in Central Europa. Springer, Heidelberg, 240-249.
15. FLÜGEL, E. 1981. Paleocology and facies of Upper Triassic reefs in the Northern Calcareous Alps. In: TOOMEY, D.F. (ed), Fossil Reef Models. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists, Special Publication 30, 291-359.
16. GAIDZICKI, A. 1983. Foraminifers and biostratigraphy of Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic of the Slovakian and Polish Carpathians. Palaeontologica Polonica 44, 109-169.
17. GRADSTEIN, F. M., AGTERBERG, F. P., OGG, J. G., HARDENBOL, J., VAN VEEN, P., THIERRY, J. & HUANG, Z. 1994. A Mesozoic time scale. Journal of Geophysical Research 99, 24051-24074.
18. CÜMÜŞ, A. 1964. Contribution a l'etude geologique du secteur septentrional de kalabak Köy - Eymir Köy (region d'Edremit), Turquie. Maden Tetkik ve Arama Enstitüsü (MTA), Special Publication 117, 109 p.
19. HOHENEGGER, J. 1974. Über einfache Gruppierungsmethoden von Fossil-Vergesellschaftungen am Beispiel obertriadischer Foraminiferen. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 146, 263-297.
20. HOHENEGGER, J. & LOBITZER, H. 1971. Die Foraminiferen-Verteilung in einem obertriadischen Karbonat-plattfrom- Becken-Komplex der östlichen Nördlichen Kalkalpen. Verhandlungen der geologischenBundesanstalt 1971, 458-485.
21. KAYA, O. & MÖSTLER, H. 1992. A Middle Triassic age for low-grade greenschist facies metamorphic sequence in Bergama (Izmir), western Turkey: the first paleontological age assignment and structural-stratigraphic implications. Newsletter for Stratigraphy 26, 1-17.
22. KOZUR, H., AYDIN, M., DEMIR, O., YAKAR, H., GÖNCÜOǦLU, M.C. & KURU, F. 2000. New stratigraphic and palaeogeographic results from the Palaeozoic and Early Mesozoic of the Middle Pontides (northern Turkey) in the Azdavay, Devrekani, Küre and Inebolu areas. Implications for the Carboniferous-Early Cretaceous geodynamic evolution and some related remarks to the Karakaya oceanic rift basin. Geologica Croatica 53, 209-268.
23. KRISTAN, E. 1957. Ophthalmidiidae und Tetrataxinae (Foraminifera) aus dem Rhät der Hohen Wand in Nieder-Österreich. Jahrbuch der geologischgen Bundesanstalt 100, 269-298.
24. KRISTAN-TOLLMANN, E. 1964. Beiträge zur Mikrofauna des Rhät. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Geologie und Bergbaustudenten Österreichs 14, 125-148.
25. KRISTAN-TOLLMANN, E. 1970. Beiträge zur Mikrofauna des Rhät. III. Foraminiferen aus dem Rhät des Königsbergzuges bei Göstling (Nieder-Österreich). Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Geologie und Berbausdenten Özterreiches 19, 239-589.
26. KRUSHENSKY, R., AKÇAY, Y. & KARAEGE, E. 1980. Geology of the Karalar-Yeşiller area, northwest Anatolia, Turkey. Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey 1461, 72 p.
27. LEVEN, E.JA. & OKAY, A.I. 1996. Foraminifera from the exotic Permo-Carboniferous limestone blocks in the Karakaya Complex, northwest Turkey. Rivista Italiana Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 102, 139-174.
28. MARTINI, R., VACHARD, D., ZANINETTI, L., CIRILLI, S., CORNEE, J.-J., LATHUILIERE, B. & VILLENEUVE, M. 1997. Sedimentology, stratigraphy, and micropaleotology of the Upper Triassic reefal series in Eastern Sulawesi (Indonesia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 128, 157-174.
29. MCROBERTS, C.A., FURRER, H. & JONES, D.S. 1997. Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of a Triassic-Jurassic boundary section from Western Austria based on palaeoecological and geochemical data. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 136, 79-95.
30. OKAY, A.I. 2000. Was the Late Triassic orogeny in Turkey caused by the collision of an oceanic plateau ? In: BOZKURT, E., WINCHESTER, J.A. & PIPER, J.D.A. (eds), Tectonics and Magmatism in Turkey and Surrounding Area. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 173, 25-41.
31. OKAY, A.I. & MONIÉ, P. 1997. Early Mesozoic subduction in the Eastern Mediterranean: Evidence from Triassic eclogite in northwest Turkey. Geology 25, 595-598.
32. OKAY, A.I. & SIYAKO, M. 1993. The new position of the Izmir-Ankara Neo-Tethyan suture between Izmir and Balikesir. In: TURGUT, S. (ed), Tectonics and Hydrocarbon Potential of Anatolia and Surrounding Regions. Proceedings of the Ozan Sungurlu Symposium, Ankara, Turkish Association of Petroleum Geologists Publication, 333-355.
33. OKAY, A.I., SIYAKO, M. & BÜRKAN, K.A. 1991. Geology and tectonic evolution of the Biga Peninsula, northwest Turkey. Bulletin of the Technical University of Istanbul 44, 191-256.
34. OKAY, A.I., MONOD, O. & MONIÉ, P. 2002. Triassic blueschists and eclogites from northwest Turkey: vestiges of the Paleo-Tethyan subduction. Lithos 64, 155-178.
35. OKAY, A.I., SATIR, M., MALUSKI, H., SIYAKO, M., MONIE, P., METZGER, R. & AKYÜZ, S. 1996. Paleo- and Neo-Tethyan events in northwest Turkey: geological and geochronological constraints. In: YIN, A. & HARRISON, M. (eds), Tectonics of Asia. Cambridge University Press, 420-441.
36. ORAVECZ-SCHEFFER, A. 1987. Triassic foraminifers of the Transdanubian central range. Geologica Hungarica Series Paleontologica 50, 1-331.
37. PICKETT, E. & ROBERTSON, A. H. F. 1996. Formation of the Late Palaeozoic-Early Mesozoic Karakaya Complex and related ophiolites in NW Turkey by paleotethyan subduction-accretion. Journal of the Geological Society, London 153, 995-1009.
38. PILLER, W. 1978. Involutinacea (Foraminifera) der Trias und des Lias. Beiträge zur Paläontologie von Österreich 5, 1-164.
39. PRONINA, G. P. & VUKS, V.JA. 1995. New data on the Triassic foraminifers of Crimea. Supplemento agli Annali dei Musei Civici di Roverto, Sezione Archeologia, Storia e Scienze Naturali 11, 215-228.
40. SADATI, S. M. 1981. Die Hohe Wand: Ein obertriadisches Lagunen-Riff am Ostende der Nördlichen Kalkalpen (Niederösterrich). Faices 5, 191-264.
41. SCHÄFER, P. & SENOWBARI-DARYAN, B. 1978. Die Häufgkeitsverteilung der Foraminiferen in drei oberrhätischen Riff-Komplexen der Nördlichen Kalkalpen (Salzburg, -dsOsterreich). Verhandlungen der geologischenBundesanstalt 1978, 73-96.
42. SCHÄFER, P. & SENOWBARI-DARYAN, B. 1981. Facies development and paleoecological zonation of four Upper Triassic patch-reefs, Northern Calcareous Alps. In: TOOMEY, D.F. (ed), Fossil Reef Models. Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication 30, 241-259.
43. SENOWBARI-DARYAN, B. 1983. Gattung Pseudocucurbita Borza & Samuel, 1978 (=pro Cucurbita Jablonsky, 1973) und Beschreibung vergleichbarer problematischer Organismen aus der Obertrias des alpin-mediterranean Raumes. Rivista Italiana Paleontologia 88, 181-250.
44. SENOWBARI-DARYAN, B. 1984. Mikroproblematika aus den obertriadischen Riffkalken von Sizilien. Münstersche Forschungen zur Geologie und Paläontologie 61, 1-8.
45. STANLEY, G. D. & SENOWBARI-DARYAN, B. 1986. Upper Triassic, Dachstein-type, reef limestone from the Wallowa mountains, Oregon: first reported occurrence in the United States. Palaios 1, 172-177.
46. TEKELI, O. 1981. Subduction complex of pre-Jurassic age, northern Anatolia, Turkey. Geology 9, 68-72.
47. TOLLMANN, A. 1976. Analyse des klassichen nordalpinen Mesozoikums. Wien, Deuticke, 580 p.
48. VUKS, V. JA. 1995. Late Triassic foraminifers of Caucasus and Pamirs. Supplemento agli Annali dei Musei Civici di Roverto, Sezione Archeologia, Storia e Scienze Naturali 11, 199-206.
49. WILSON, J.L. 1975. Carbonate Facies in Geological History. Springer, Berlin, 471 p.
50. ZANINETTI, L. 1976. Les foraminifères du Trias. Essai de synthèse et corrélation entre le domaines mésogéens européen et asiatique. Rivista Italiana Paleontologia, 82, 1-258.
51. ZANINETTI, L., ALTINER, D., DAŞER, Z. & DUCRET, B. 1982a. Les Milioliporidae (Foraminifères) dans le Trias supérieur à faciès récifal du Taurus, Turquie. I. Proposition pour une nouvelle subidivision. Revue de Paléobiologie 1, 93-103.
52. ZANINETTI, L., ALTINER, D., DAŞER, Z. & DUCRET, B. 1982b. Les Milioliporidae (Foraminifères) dans le Trias supérieur à faciès récifal du Taurus, Turquie. II. Microfaunes associées. Revue de Paléobiologie 1, 105-139.
53. ZANINETTI, L., MARTINI, R. & ALTINER, D. 1992. Les Miliolina (Foraminiferida) : proposition pour une nouvelle subdivision; description des familles Hydraniidae n. fam., et Siculocostidae, n. fam. Revue de Paléobiologie 11, 213-217.
54. ZANKL, H. 1971. Upper Triassic carbonate facies in the Northern Limestone Alps. In: MÜLLER, G. (ed), Sedimentology of parts of Central Europe. Guide Book, 147-185.