Türkiye Jeoloji Bülteni

Tectonic features of the Sultandağları Massif between Engili (Akşehir) and Bağkonak Villages

Abstract: Detailed mapping of the Sultandağları Massif between Bağkonak (Yalvaç) and Engilli (Akşehir) villages indicates the followingstratigraphic succesions. The lower epimelamorphics consist of the Lower (?) - Middle Cambrian Çaltepe Formation and Upper Cambrian - LowerOrdovician Sultandede Formation; they are unconformably overlain by the Middle - Upper Devonian Engilli Formation. The Engilli Formationconformably underlies the Lower - Upper Corbaniferous Kirazlı and Harlak Formations and Upper Carboniferous -Upper Permian deresinekFormation. The Triassic (?) Kocakızıl dolerite intruded in the whole autochthonous Paleozoic assemblage. The allochthonous Hoyran ophiolite andthe Upper Jurassic - Upper Cretaceous Hacıalabaz limestone blocks, believed to be a part of the Hoyran Nappe, were tectonically emplaced on to themassif. Alluvial fan and lacustrine sediments of Upper Miocene - Pliocene age, referred to the Bağkonak and Yankkaya Formations, respectively,unconformafbly overlie Pre-Cenozoic units. Later, they were covered by the Recent alluvial deposits.The Lower Paleozoic epimetamorphic core assemblage wes deformed by three phases of folding and gained type-2 and type-3 re- folded-fold sturctures during the Caledonian orgeny. While the Upper Paleozoic metasedimentary envelope of the massif was gaining NW -SE trending mesoscopic tectonit structures, the whole of the Paleozoic units underwent low grade regional metamorphism during the Hercinian orogeny. However, in the Mesozoic - Senozoic development of Taurides, the Alpine movements, which caused the development of;rifting (Triassic), overthrusting, nappe-tectonics (Late Eocene) and block-faulting (Late Miocene), gave the present tectonic appearance of` the Sultandağları Massif.