TY - JOUR
T1 - The Beyşehir-Hoyran-Hadim Nappes
T2 - Genesis and emplacement of mesozoic marginal and oceanic units of the northern Neotethys in southern Turkey
AU - Andrew, Theo
AU - Robertson, Alastair H F
PY - 2002/9
Y1 - 2002/9
N2 - The Beyşehir-Hoyran-Hadim Nappes crop out over 700 km from NW to SE. Above a regionally autochthonous Tauride carbonate platform the Beyşchir-Hoyran Nappes begin with a thrust sheet (c. 400 m) of mainly redeposited carbonates, quartzose sandstones and mudstones of Mid-Late Triassic age, interpreted as a proximal slope-base-of-slope succession. Above is a thrust sheet (c. 1 km) of Middle-Upper Triassic intermediate-acidic extrusive rocks, volcaniclastic rocks and minor pelagic carbonates, interpreted as a continental rift. Thin (<100 m) Upper Triassic-Upper Cretaceous pelagic carbonate and radiolarian chert lie depositionally above. The uppermost thrust sheet comprises broken formation and mélange, including Jurassic shallow-water carbonate, radiolarian chert and Upper Cretaceous pelagic limestone. Zones of tectonic-sedimentary mélange separate higher units. The Beyşehir-Hoyran Nappes document Triassic rifting and Jurassic-Cretaceous passive margin subsidence bordering the Northern Neotethys. A harzburgitic ophiolite probably formed above a north-dipping subduction zone within the ocean basin. The ophiolite was emplaced southwards onto the northern margin of the Tauride platform in latest Cretaceous time. The nappe pile and underlying platform (Hadim Nappe) were thrust further south in Late Eocene time. Assuming in-sequence thrusting, the Beyşehir-Hoyran Nappes restore to a location north of a Neotethyan spreading axis. More probably, they originated near the south margin of the Northern Neotethys, but reached their position by out-of-sequence thrusting. Formation within a southerly strand of the Northern Neotethys (Inner Tauride ocean) is more probable than within the main Northern Neotethys further north.
AB - The Beyşehir-Hoyran-Hadim Nappes crop out over 700 km from NW to SE. Above a regionally autochthonous Tauride carbonate platform the Beyşchir-Hoyran Nappes begin with a thrust sheet (c. 400 m) of mainly redeposited carbonates, quartzose sandstones and mudstones of Mid-Late Triassic age, interpreted as a proximal slope-base-of-slope succession. Above is a thrust sheet (c. 1 km) of Middle-Upper Triassic intermediate-acidic extrusive rocks, volcaniclastic rocks and minor pelagic carbonates, interpreted as a continental rift. Thin (<100 m) Upper Triassic-Upper Cretaceous pelagic carbonate and radiolarian chert lie depositionally above. The uppermost thrust sheet comprises broken formation and mélange, including Jurassic shallow-water carbonate, radiolarian chert and Upper Cretaceous pelagic limestone. Zones of tectonic-sedimentary mélange separate higher units. The Beyşehir-Hoyran Nappes document Triassic rifting and Jurassic-Cretaceous passive margin subsidence bordering the Northern Neotethys. A harzburgitic ophiolite probably formed above a north-dipping subduction zone within the ocean basin. The ophiolite was emplaced southwards onto the northern margin of the Tauride platform in latest Cretaceous time. The nappe pile and underlying platform (Hadim Nappe) were thrust further south in Late Eocene time. Assuming in-sequence thrusting, the Beyşehir-Hoyran Nappes restore to a location north of a Neotethyan spreading axis. More probably, they originated near the south margin of the Northern Neotethys, but reached their position by out-of-sequence thrusting. Formation within a southerly strand of the Northern Neotethys (Inner Tauride ocean) is more probable than within the main Northern Neotethys further north.
KW - Neotethys
KW - Orogeny
KW - Tectonics
KW - Thrust sheets
KW - Turkey
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84862765719&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1144/0016-764901-157
DO - 10.1144/0016-764901-157
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84862765719
VL - 159
SP - 529
EP - 543
JO - Journal of the Geological Society
JF - Journal of the Geological Society
SN - 0016-7649
IS - 5
ER -