Early Pleistocene (Calabrian) Ostracoda assemblage and paleoenvironmental characteristics of the Fevzipasa Formation, Western Anatolia

TUNCER A., TUNOĞLU C.

MICROPALEONTOLOGY, cilt.61, ss.69-83, 2015 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 61
  • Basım Tarihi: 2015
  • Dergi Adı: MICROPALEONTOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.69-83
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Ostracoda, Early Pleistocene, Fevzipasa Formation, Paleoenvironmental interpretation, BUYUK MENDERES GRABEN, CRUSTACEA, LACUSTRINE, BASIN, ENVIRONMENT, ISRAEL, FAUNA, SITE
  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

The study area is located about 40km west of Aydin city in western Turkey and includes Neogene to Quaternary sediments of the Fevzipasa Formation, which unconformably overlies the Miocene rock units. The Fevzipasa Formation is composed of conglomerates, sandstones, mudstones, marls, limestones and tuff layers and is unconformably overlain by recent deposits of the Soke-Milet Basin. The lower part of the Fevzipasa Formation is represented by coarse clastics and lacustrine carbonates followed by fine to coarse-grained sandstones bearing mollusc shells. Prominent tuff layers (lower and upper tuff layers) of this dominantly sandstone succession were radiometrically dated between roughly 2 and 1Ma. Based on small mammal fauna the age of the upper part of the formation is Early to Late Pleistocene.