Abstract:

Early–middle Miocene reefal limestones are overlain disconformably by late Serravallian– early Tortonian incised valley-fill deposits of Dağpazarı formation in the Mut Basin. Dağpazarı formation is composed of mudstone, siltstone, sandstone and conglomerates. Facies associations of the formation are: fluvial, lagoon, shoal-water delta, shoreface, beach and barrier island deposits. Loxoconcha tumida Brady and Loxoconcha sp. in the gray mudstones indicate the freshwater influence and decrease in salinity. Hemicyprideis sp. documents brackish water conditions. The shoreface sandstones alternating with the lagoonal mudstones, and oyster-rich beach deposits in different levels of the sequence indicate episodes of marine connections. The age of the Dağpazarı formation is provided by the planktonic foraminifera from the marine mudstones and marls below and above the formation, and corresponds to the MMi8–MMi10 biostratigraphic interval, which spans the late Serravallian–early Tortonian. Late Serravallian eustatic sea-level fall caused to the quick shallowing of the Mut Basin and subaerial exposure of the reefal limestones at the basin margin. Thus, the incised valley, formed upon the reefal limestones of the Mut formation. This incised valley reflects a regional forced regression and unconformity. The Dağpazarı formation was deposited within this incised valley following an early Tortonian relative sea-level rise.  

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