Abstract
The Aydıncık tufa crops out in an area of approximately 1 km2 along the Mediterranean coast of Aydıncık town (Mersin-Turkey) located at the southern flank of the central Taurus mountain belt comprising clastics and carbonates ranging from Late Proterozoic to middle Eocene and several NE-SW aligned faults. It comprises seven texturally different facies: phytoherm framestone facies, phytoherm boundstone facies, micritic tufa facies, crossbedded carbonate sandstone facies, carbonate-coated conglomerate facies, pebbly carbonate sandstone facies, and tufa breccias facies. Of these, the phytoherm framestone facies and the phytoherm boundstone facies were deposited at the peripheral part of lake, whereas the micritic tufa facies toward the lake depocenter. Tufa breccias facies and crossbedded carbonate sandstone facies were resulted from erosion and redeposition of fragments from previously formed units such as phytoherm framestone and boundstone by fluvial activities developed within the environment. The tufa samples are composed of low-Mg calcite, and the terrigenous material in all tufa facies is generally very low. C and O isotop data show that the deposition of the Aydıncık tufa took place under cold water condition. The sedimentological and mineralogical characteristics of the facies points that the Aydıncık tufa was deposited in a fluvio-lacustrine environment in which the terrigen input was very low and was feeded by water from springs developed along the faults close to the Aydıncık tufa.
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We are grateful to the Selcuk University Research Fund for their support (Project No: SÜ-BAP-08201009) for the financial support. Special thanks go to Prof.Dr. Levent ZOROĞLU from Department of Archeology, Selçuk University for introducing us the Aydıncık Tufa and for his logistic support in the field studies. This article is produced from Master Thesis of Fethiye (KÖSE) KALAN supervised by Hükmü ORHAN.
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Orhan, H., Kalan, F. Sedimentological characteristics of Quaternary Aydıncık tufa (Mersin-Türkiye). Carbonates Evaporites 30, 451–459 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13146-015-0244-7
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