Middle-Upper Miocene paleogeography of southern Turkey: Insights from stratigraphy and calcareous nannofossil biochronology of the Olukpınar and Başyayla sections (Mut-Ermenek Basin)

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 820-838

  Cipollari, Paola ^a,b   Halásová, Eva ^c   Gürbüz, Kemal ^d   Cosentino, Domenico ^a,b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering (IGAG CNR)   (Italy)

^c Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

^d CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Calcareous nannofossils biostratigraphy; Middle Late Miocene; Mut Ermenek Basin; Southern Turkey; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BASEMENT ROCK; BIOCHRONOLOGY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEBRIS FLOW; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SEDIMENT; MIOCENE; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE;

ERMENEK BASIN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MUT BASIN; TURKEY;

EID: 84882984680     PISSN: 13000985     EISSN: 1303619X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3906/yer-1208-2     Document Type: Article

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