Carbonate sedimentation in an extensional active margin: Cretaceous history of the Haymana region, Pontides

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• 作者：Aral I. Okay ; Demir Altiner
• 关键词：Cretaceous ; Stratigraphy ; Foraminifera ; Forearc ; Carbonates ; Pontides ; Haymana
• 刊名：International Journal of Earth Sciences
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：105
• 期：7
• 页码：2013-2030
• 全文大小：14,724 KB
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Earth sciences
  Geology
  Geophysics and Geodesy
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1437-3262
• 卷排序：105

文摘

The Haymana region in Central Anatolia is located in the southern part of the Pontides close to the İzmir–Ankara suture. During the Cretaceous, the region formed part of the south-facing active margin of the Eurasia. The area preserves a nearly complete record of the Cretaceous system. Shallow marine carbonates of earliest Cretaceous age are overlain by a 700-m-thick Cretaceous sequence, dominated by deep marine limestones. Three unconformity-bounded pelagic carbonate sequences of Berriasian, Albian–Cenomanian and Turonian–Santonian ages are recognized: Each depositional sequence is preceded by a period of tilting and submarine erosion during the Berriasian, early Albian and late Cenomanian, which corresponds to phases of local extension in the active continental margin. Carbonate breccias mark the base of the sequences and each carbonate sequence steps down on older units. The deep marine carbonate deposition ended in the late Santonian followed by tilting, erosion and folding during the Campanian. Deposition of thick siliciclastic turbidites started in the late Campanian and continued into the Tertiary. Unlike most forearc basins, the Haymana region was a site of deep marine carbonate deposition until the Campanian. This was because the Pontide arc was extensional and the volcanic detritus was trapped in the intra-arc basins and did not reach the forearc or the trench. The extensional nature of the arc is also shown by the opening of the Black Sea as a backarc basin in the Turonian–Santonian. The carbonate sedimentation in an active margin is characterized by synsedimentary vertical displacements, which results in submarine erosion, carbonate breccias and in the lateral discontinuity of the sequences, and differs from blanket like carbonate deposition in the passive margins.