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Revised stratigraphy and relationships of Lower Palaeozoic rocks, eastern Taurus Mountains, south central Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

W. T. Dean  and
O. Monod
W. T. Dean
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Wales College of Cardiff, P.O. Box 914, Cardiff CF1 3YE, UK
O. Monod
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Géologie Structurale, Université d'Orleans, 45067-Orleans, France
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Abstract

Lithostratigraphic terminology is revised for rocks of Ordovician age in the eastern Taurus. The Seydişehir Formation, of late middle Cambrian to early Ordovician age, is shown to be applicable in the eastern and western Taurus as well as in south-eastern Turkey. Near Degˇirmentaş, northeast of Adana, the Seydişehir Formation is overlain, with inferred unconformity, by clastic strata of Ashgill age referred to the Şort Tepe Formation, first defined south of Hakkâri, in the Border Folds of southeastern Turkey. Palaeontological evidence is cited for the early Silurian (Llandovery) age of the unconformably overlying Halityayla Formation farther south, on the coast near Ovacik, where the Şort Tepe Formation is as yet unrecorded. A general model is proposed showing relationships of Cambrian and Ordovician rocks and faunas in southern and southeastern Turkey.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 127 , Issue 4 , July 1990 , pp. 333 - 347
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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