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Probable Early Kîmınerian Orogenic Implications in the Beyşehir Area (Central Taurus)

Abstract: This paper has been prepared by the purpose of pointing out some of the structural clues supportingthat Early Kimmerian Orogeny, its presence in Seydişehir and Ermenek localities has been cited before by some other researchers, has also affected the Beyşehir locality.Rock stratigraphic units of the, Cambrian  age have been thrusted over the Middle Cambrian - Lower OrdovicianSeydişehir schists in Beyşehir area and after thrusting both Cambrian rocks and Seydişehir sahists iiave been overlain with the angular unconformity by Upper Lias - Lower Dogger carbonates.When these evidences are evaluated with other investigaters data, it can be suggested that the northern partof the Central Taurus Mountains was possibly subjected to Early Kimmerian orogenic events during Rhaetian.