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Bey Dağları
In April-May 2007, a fieldwork was undertaken aiming to collect paleomagnetic samples to date the previously reported 30 degrees of counterclockwise rotation of the Bey Dağları region in southwestern Turkey. Additionally, samples were collected to reconstruct the age and paleobathymetry of the Bey Dağları foreland basin in the Miocene. This fieldwork was carried out within the context of my VENI project, in which rotation during exhumation of the Menderes core complex, north of the Bey Dağları region is reconstructed.
Fieldwork was carried out by Annemiek Asschert...
...Erhan Gülyüz, student at the Middle East Technical University of Ankara...
...and me
Attempting to date the rotation of the Bey Dağları region, we sampled in detail the Aquitanian to Serravallian (23-11 Ma) foreland basin deposits unconformably overlying Eocene and older limestones. This picture shows the tilted unconformity at the base of the Korkuteli-section
River = road :)
Car park in the river :)
...and from there on we walked and sampled 1600 m of alternating clay, turbidite and occasional limestones
Erhan carrying the water pump up the section
And drilling the clays in between the turbidites (still, flysch deposits are the most boring successions I know, but contain a lot of nice info :))
Dewatering structures in some of the turbidite indicative of seismic activity in the early days after deposition
A sheppard and his goats passing by in the river.
Erhan drilling the top of the Korkuteli section
Annemiek measuring the sample orientation at the same locality
The top of the section is formed by cycles of clay and carbonaceous marl (here on the picture), overthrusted by a melange of flysch and Lycian nappe related rocks, and the Lycian nappes themselves.
River site after we collected the samples
Beautiful large-scale anticline (looking S) in the Bey Dağları limestones,. along the road from Korkuteli to Elmalı
The second section called Doğantaş was sampled in the Kasaba syncline along a river
Me drilling the basal Aquitanian limestones of the section. Local guy wondering whether we're looking for gold (try to explain to them that it's mud your interested in)
Local guy losing interest :)
Breakfast
Annemiek exploring a section...
Erhan drilling it
Erhan and me carrying the equipment down the river
Erhan filling the new water tank
...me using it
Erhan in action
Erhan out of action :)
Climbing to the top of the section
Annemiek measuring bedding orientation
Erhan and me discussing (or talking about soccer, who knows)
Mechanic, welding our broken drillbit
Annemiek at the volcanic fields of Kula in the Menderes region
Faults in the Pleistocene of Burdur
Travertine formations of Pamukkale (hydrothermal carbonate deposits)
Ancient Roman buildings in Hierapolis around Pamukkale
Fossil sea urcheon
and as always some wildlife: here a large river crab
a gekko
...and mating frogs |
Turkey
2007
