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Age of the Alaşehir graben (West Turkey) and its tectonic implications

✍ Scribed by Gürol Seyitoğlu; Barry C. Scott

Book ID
102658436
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
795 KB
Volume
31
Category
Article
ISSN
0072-1050

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✦ Synopsis

The Alavehir graben is one of the main E-W (sensu lato) trending structures which developed under Late Cenozoic N S extensional tectonics in west Turkey. The age of this graben is accepted broadly as Mio-Pliocene, but no specific data is available. An Eskihisar sporomorph association (middle Burdigalian-middle Scrravallian, 2&14 Ma) has been determined from the lower part of the graben-fill, demonstrating that its age of initiation is Early Miocene. When this result is taken into account with the similar ages of the Biiyiik Menderes graben and the adjacent NE-SW trending Gordes basin, it is evident that these E W and NE-SW trending graben/basins developed together during the Early Miocene.

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