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Microtextural properties of ooids in the middle Jurassic-lower Cretaceous, central taurus carbonate platform, Antalya, Turkey

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Ooids occurring in the middle Jurassic-lower Cretaceous carbonate sediments of Akseki, Antalya (Turkey) are of two distinct kinds. Type 1 ooids are small and of irregular shape. They have 1 to 4 cortical laminae with a fine radial structure and patchy micritization. The nucleus of this type is composed of micrite and in places is not visible. In the radial part of this kind of ooid, microporosity and/or microopenings seem to be micro-borings. Type 2 ooids are large and well rounded with vaguely visible nuclei. They display fine concentric micritic laminae which coincide with endolithic microorganisms and microborings of fossils.

These ooids accumulated in a subtidal and lagoonal calm-water environment. Cyanobacteria and endolithic algae are thought to have contributed to the formation of these ooids.

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  1. Department of Geological Engineering, Ankara University, Tandogan, 06100, Ankara, Turkey

    Turhan Ayyildiz & Erdogan Tekin

  2. Department of Geology, Brooklyn College and Graduate School of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY

    Gerald M. Friedman

  3. Northeastern Science Foundation, Inc., affiliated with Brooklyn College, Rensselaer Center of Applied Geology, 15 Third Street, P.O. Box 746, 12181, Troy, NY, USA

    Gerald M. Friedman

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Ayyildiz, T., Tekin, E. & Friedman, G.M. Microtextural properties of ooids in the middle Jurassic-lower Cretaceous, central taurus carbonate platform, Antalya, Turkey. Carbonates Evaporites 16, 1–7 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03176221

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