Revised Late Campanian-Danian age of the melange-related turbiditic sequence in the Mersin area (Central Taurides, S. Turkey)

• Main Authors: KOÇ, HAYATİ, TASLI, KEMAL, ÖZER, EROL
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: TÜBİTAK Academic Journals 2013
• Subjects: Early Palaeocene; planktonic foraminifera; ophiolite emplacement; Central Taurides; S Turkey; Earth Sciences; Todd; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/earth/vol22/iss2/5; https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1366&context=earth

A planktonic foraminiferal assemblage obtained from the Yavca stratigraphic section north of Mersin shows that the age of a melange-related turbiditic sequence extends to the Danian (Early Palaeocene). Previously, this turbiditic sequence, termed the Yavca Formation, was considered to be of Late Cre...