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Geological evolution of a tectonic and climatic transition zone: the Beyşehir-Suğla basin, lake district of Turkey

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Central-west Turkey is a transition zone both tectonically and climatically between the quite different central and western regions of Anatolia. Central Anatolia represents the seismically quiet part of the otherwise highly active Turkey. On the other hand, this region has some of the lowest precipitation and highest evaporation ratios of Turkey. Conversely, west Anatolia is one of the most rapidly extending regions of the world and seismically very active. The climate is very different from the central part of Turkey and more humid. The zone between these two regions is also known geologically as the Isparta Angle. This reverse-V-shaped fold and thrust belt has several lake basins today, which have archived the geological and geomorphological history of this tectonic and climatic transition zone. The Beyşehir-Suğla basin is located on the eastern part of this zone. This NW–SE trending basin includes the largest natural freshwater lake of the Mediterranean region: Lake Beyşehir. Lakes Beyşehir and Suğla are located in this tectonic depression that discharge into an incised river gorge opening to the Konya closed basin. In order to shed light on the development of the Beyşehir-Suğla basin, our study was mainly conducted within the Neogene and Quaternary units of the region. Our structural results indicate that the depression was probably formed by a transtensional regime in the middle Miocene, which is controlled by extensional tectonics since the early Quaternary. Also, the current depression has mainly embodied the structures that are the products of these tectonic phases. According to our sedimentary data and palaeoecological interpretation of available palaeontological data, the Beyşehir-Suğla basin was developed initially under a humid and warm climate in the middle Miocene; then since the late Miocene-Pliocene it was controlled by a relatively more arid and, at times, humid climate more like the central Anatolian basins. Although the Beyşehir-Suğla basin is hydrologically connected to the Konya closed basin in central Anatolia, it was protected from arid climatic conditions for over millions of years as evidenced by the lack of evaporites in the studied basin and surrounding basins located in the interior part of the Isparta Angle. While the regional climate seems to have changed consistently with the geomorphic response to large-scale tectonics (i.e. orographic barrier development), the Beyşehir-Suğla basin seems to be protected from hydrological closure by the existence of karstic features in the surrounding carbonate basement rocks.

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(modified from BİB 1996). (b) Annual precipitation rates in Turkey (modified from Atalay, 1983). (c) Location map of the Beyşehir-Suğla basin and the Konya closed drainage basin

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Acknowledgements

This study was funded by the Ankara University Scientific Research Projects Unit (AÜBAP, Grant No: 12B4343002). E.G. acknowledges support from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK, BİDEB2211-A). The authors would like to thank F. Şaroğlu (JEMİRKO) for fruitful discussions in the office, and Y. Suludere (JEMİRKO), S. Öncel (GTÜ), Ö. İleri (MTA) and M. Kibar (AÜ) for discussions in the field, S. Karadağ, L. Ata and S. Ünal (BÖE) for their hospitality during our field studies, and four anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions that significantly improved the quality of the manuscript.

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  1. Jeoloji Mühendisliği Bölümü, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Niğde Ömer Halisdemir Üniversitesi, 51240, Niğde, Turkey

    Alper Gürbüz

  2. Jeoloji Mühendisliği Bölümü, Mühendislik Fakültesi, Ankara Üniversitesi, 06100, Tandoğan, Ankara, Turkey

    Nizamettin Kazancı, Zeynep Ergun, Özgür Yedek & Tahsin Onur Yücel

  3. Deniz Araştırmaları Dairesi Başkanlığı, Maden Tetkik Ve Arama Genel Müdürlüğü, 06520, Ankara, Turkey

    H. Yavuz Hakyemez

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    H. Yavuz Hakyemez, Gerçek Saraç, Özgür Yedek & Tahsin Onur Yücel

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    Suzanne A. G. Leroy

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    Suzanne A. G. Leroy

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    Neil Roberts

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    Neil Roberts

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    Sonay Boyraz-Arslan & Esra Gürbüz

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Gürbüz, A., Kazancı, N., Hakyemez, H.Y. et al. Geological evolution of a tectonic and climatic transition zone: the Beyşehir-Suğla basin, lake district of Turkey. Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 110, 1077–1107 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-021-02007-x

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