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Geological features and geochemical characteristics of Late Devonian–Early Carboniferous K-bentonites from northwestern Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

M.C. Göncüoğlu ,
A. Günal-Türkmenoğlu ,
Ö. Bozkaya ,
Ö. Ünlüce-Yücel ,
C. Okuyucu  and
İ.Ö. Yilmaz
M.C. Göncüoğlu
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
A. Günal-Türkmenoğlu
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Ö. Bozkaya*
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Engineering, Pamukkale University, Denizli, Turkey
Ö. Ünlüce-Yücel
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
C. Okuyucu
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Engineering, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey
İ.Ö. Yilmaz
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
*
*E-mail: obozkaya@pau.edu.tr
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Abstract

Newly discovered K-bentonite beds, interstratified with limestones/dolomitic limestones of the Upper Devonian–Lower Carboniferous Yılanlı Formation, are exposed in the northwestern Black Sea region of Turkey, around Zonguldak and Bartın. K-bentonite samples collected from four different locations: the Gavurpınarı and Yılanlı Burnu quarries from the Bartın area, the Çimşir Çukurları quarry from the Şapça area, and the Güdüllü and Gökgöl highway tunnel section near Zonguldak city were investigated using optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry in order to reveal their mineralogical and geochemical characteristics and understand their origin and evolution. The K-bentonites occur at different levels in the Yılanlı Formation as 2–40 cm-thick, greenish to yellowish beds cropping out several hundred metres along strike. Preliminary biostratigraphic data suggest that the protoliths of the Bartın (Gavurpınarı and Yılanlı Burnu) and Güdüllü K-bentonites were deposited at around the boundary between the Frasnian and Famennian, whereas those in the Şapça and Gökgöl sections are slightly younger (Devonian–Carboniferous boundary interval). The lithofacies types of the host carbonate rocks suggest an ‘epeiric’ shallow carbonate platform environment. Illite and mixed-layer illite-smectite were the major clay minerals in the K-bentonites. The K-bentonites from the Bartın area display a high degree of illitization and consist mainly of illite indicating high-grade diagenesis, whereas illite-smectite-rich samples from the Şapca and Gökgöl tunnel locations reflect relatively lower diagenetic conditions. According to their geochemical compositions, two groups of K-bentonites were distinguished, one with alkali basalt (Bartın area and Güdüllü locations) and one with trachyte affinities (Gökgöl tunnel and Şapça locations). Geochemical fingerprinting of K-bentonites by trace and rare earth element (REE) data suggest that tephras with alkali basalt composition have been derived by a source formed in a ‘continental back-arc’ setting, whereas the source of K-bentonites with trachytic precursors is related to ‘continental within-plate rifting’. An evaluation of the global Late Devonian and Devonian–Carboniferous volcanism suggests that the bentonite precursors may be related to late-Variscan magmatism in Laurussia.

Keywords

K-bentoniteLate Devonian–Early Carboniferouschemostratigraphytectonomagmatic settingilliteYilanli FormationTurkey
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Research Article
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Clay Minerals , Volume 51 , Issue 4 , September 2016 , pp. 539 - 562
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 2016

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This work was originally presented during the session ‘Bentonites linking clay science with technology’, part of the Euroclay 2015 conference held in July 2015 in Edinburgh, UK.

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