PETROGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF MENTEŞE DOLOMITES (ISPARTA)

SALİH DİNÇ ¹ , Ali Müjdat ÖZKAN ¹

The study area in the Isparta Angle area of the Western Taurus in the region between Kasımlar - Karacahisar covers an area of approximately 386 km2. In the study area almost every period to the Paleozoic-present sedimentary, magmatic and metamorphic rock groups crop out. This part of the rock group is autochthonous position, while other sections are allokton positions. Rhaetian aged carbonate rocks in the Menteşe dolomite petrographic facies are divided as 8. These fine crystalline anhedral dolomite (Df1), medium-coarse crystalline anhedral dolomite (Df2), medium- coarse crystalline subhedral dolomite (Df3), coarse - very coarse crystalline euhedral dolomite (Df4), mudstone facies (Kf1), wackestone facies ( Kf2), packestone facies 3 (Kf3), crystalline limestone facies (Kf4). Its widely seen hypdiotopic and ksenotopic texture, crystal often has a dirty appearance of the Menteşe dolomites. Some of the dolomites are observed in the primary texture of the partially preserved. Dolomites were interpreted to have formed in two different stages, early diagenetic and late diagenetic. Early diagenetic dolomites occured in mix water at low temperatures. The late diagenetic dolomites formed during shallow burial occurred in the rising temperatures.

Keywords
Dolomite, Eearly, Diagenesis, Burial, Peritidal,