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Clay Minerals; December 2004; v. 39; no. 4; p. 481-500; DOI: 10.1180/0009855043940149
© 2004 Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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Research Paper

Diagenetic to low-grade metamorphic evolution of clay mineral assemblages in Palaeozoic to early Mesozoic rocks of the Eastern Taurides, Turkey

Ö. Bozkaya and H. Yalçin

Department of Geological Engineering, Cumhuriyet University, 58140 Sivas, Turkey

* E-mail: bozkaya{at}cumhuriyet.edu.tr

(Received 17 March 2003; revised 9 May 2004)

Palaeozoic to early Mesozoic rocks of both autochthonous and allochthonous units of the Eastern Tauride Belt have different textural and mineralogical features related to their varying deposition regimes and thermal histories. The Devonian and Carboniferous formations in the allocthonous units have anchizonal to epizonal grades of metamorphism, whereas those of the autochthon experienced only early diagenetic conditions. A well-developed penetrative slaty cleavage is also found in Devonian formations of the allocthonous units, which is not observed in equivalent rocks of the autochthon. Phyllosilicates of the uncleaved diagenetic assemblages consist mainly of illite, chlorite, kaolinite, mixed-layer illite-smectite, chlorite-vermiculite and chlorite-smectite, whereas in addition to these, metamorphic allochthonous units contain some index minerals such as dickite, paragonite, Na and K mica, pyrophyllite, stilpnomelane and chloritoid. These latter assemblages show a higher degree of textural and mineralogical maturation and lower b cell dimensions than the autochthonous rocks, suggesting that they originated in a relatively high heat flow basin such as an extensional setting.

KEYWORDS: clay mineral assemblages, diagenetic to low-grade metamorphic evolution, correlation of allochthonous and autochthonous units, Eastern Taurides, Turkey




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