Türkiye Jeoloji Bülteni

Sedimentary Analysis of the Miocene Dikme Basin (NE Aladağ Mnt.)

Abstract: Sedimentary analysis of a well-preserved Miocene area at altitutes as high as 1900 m in the eastern Taurides (NEAladağ mountains) was carried out in this study. A try correlation with the Adana basin that currently situated 40 kmin the south was also aimed.In the light of gravel composition, sedimentary textures and structures, and paleocurrent data, the sedimentsstudied were interpreted to have been deposited in the Dikme basin with a characteristic infill architecture. Althoughit has a prominent unique graben shape of 15 km long with a northeast trend, several intrabasinal fault-controlled relief occured as well The basin was filled from its NW and E margins by debris flow and sheet flow dominatedalluvial fan complexes that gradually pass mud-bearing central gravelly alluvial river system.Within this fluvialsystem, a local coarse pyroclastic level in the north (around Karaköy) and a Langian aged thin marine interval in thevery south (around Taştekne) occurs:The palaeogeographic evaluations rooted from sedimentary environmental interpretations suggest thatsedimentary patterns of the Adana and Dikme basins complete each other forming a larger Adana basin thence, andthis larger basin extends northwards towards the eastern Central Anatolian Volcanic realm.