Significance of the Paleocene olistostrome–turbidite belt (Abant Formation) along the Intra-Pontide Suture, northern Turkey

Author:

Okay Aral I.12ORCID,Altıner Demir3ORCID,Özcan Ercan2,Hakyemez Aynur4ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, İstanbul Technical University, Maslak, İstanbul, Turkey

2. Department of Geological Engineering, Faculty of Mines, İstanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey

3. Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

4. Department of Geological Research, General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration (MTA), Ankara, Turkey

Abstract

A belt of Paleocene turbidites with olistostromes, the Abant Formation, crops out for 350 km along the Intra-Pontide Suture in northern Turkey. The suture constitutes the contact between two major Pontide tectonic units, the Istanbul and Sakarya zones, and the Abant Formation was used as evidence for the Paleocene–early Eocene closure of the Intra-Pontide ocean. We mapped and studied the Abant Formation along the Intra-Pontide Suture. The Abant Formation consists of deformed Paleocene siliciclastic turbidites with mass flows. The blocks in the olistostromes are mainly Late Cretaceous pelagic limestones; there are also Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous, Late Cretaceous and Paleocene shallow-marine limestone blocks. Other rare block types include late Neoproterozoic and Permian granites, basalt, chert and serpentinite. The ophiolitic blocks make up less than 5% of the Abant Formation. Most of the blocks were derived from the south, from the Sakarya Zone; detrital zircon ages from the turbidite sandstones also indicate a predominantly southern source. The Abant Formation was deposited in a foreland basin, which was formed during the Paleocene collision between the Pontides and the Anatolide–Tauride Block. The basin was preferentially located on the Intra-Pontide Suture because the suture constituted an old crustal lineament.

Funder

Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu

Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi

Publisher

Geological Society of London

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