The Permo-Triassic
basement rocks form the basis of the study area, which is located on the North
Anatolian Fault and immediate vicinity of the Erbaa District on the north. The
primary covering units overlying the basement rocks consist of a thick deposit,
deposited in the depression in front of the Eurasian continent during the
Liassic-Upper Eocene time interval. The first cover units, unconformably overlying
the basic rocks, are overlaid by conglomerate, sandstone, mudstone, marl and
oolitic limestones and Lower-Middle Jurassic rocks composed of volcano-clastic
rocks, Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous aged neritic and pelagic clayey
limestones, the Santonian-Campanian aged sedimentary rocks in the pyroclastic
character accompanied by the volcanic-volcanosedimentary rocks formed by the
submarine volcanic activity in the Upper Cenomanian, Maestrichtian-Paleocene
sandy limestones, Lower-Middle Eocene conglomerate, volcanogenic sandstone,
sandy limestone and nummulites limestones and Upper Eocene basalt, pillow
lavas, andesite, tuff, tuffite, aglomera, sandstone and siltstone intercalation
unconformably. Secondary cover units, composed of loosely adhered conglomerates
and sandstones that collapse during terrestrial atmospheric conditions in
depressions formed along the North Anatolian Fault zone, are covered by the
Quaternary aged alluvium, slope rubble and deposit cones, which constitute the
youngest units of the study area.
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Publication Date | December 26, 2017 |
Submission Date | October 8, 2017 |
Published in Issue | Year 2017 Volume: 9 Issue: 3 |
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