Silicified woods from two previously undescribed early Miocene forest sites near Seben, northwest Turkey
| Autor: | Imogen Poole, Mustafa Arslan, Nesibe Köse, Suat Tosun, Nurgül Karlıoğlu Kılıç, Ünal Akkemik, Abdurrahim Aydın |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0106 biological sciences
010506 paleontology Petrified wood biology Ecology Range (biology) Liquidambar Fossil Forest Paleontology Forestry Subtropics Vegetation Evergreen biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Cedrus Galatean Volcanic Province Altitude Temperate climate Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Seben |
| Popis: | Kose, Nesibe/0000-0001-5766-0526 WOS: 000389114900004 This paper introduces two new Miocene fossil forest sites in northwest Turkey. Both sites lie at an altitude of 900 m close to the town of Seben in the province of Bolu. One locality is near the village of Hocas; the second lies 17 km to the northwest of the village of Kozyaka. The silicified wood represents lower parts of trunks that were felled by an eruption associated with volcanic activity in the Galatean Volcanic Province. The Hops site yielded a total of 64 samples (51 in situ and 13 ex situ). Eight in situ trunks have been identified as Salix L/Populus L, Palmae,Juniperus L, Liquidambar L and Quercus L (evergreen); ex situ Cedrus Trew., Picea Mill. and Acer L were found lying on the surface of the soil. The Kozyaka site yielded a total of 26 samples (six in situ, 20 ex situ) including Cedrus, Pinus L., Acer, Salix/Populus, evergreen Quercus and Ulmus L. Today in Turkey these genera grow in coastal locations across a narrow altitudinal range. Collating data found herein with evidence from previous studies suggests that during the early Miocene subtropical to warm temperate conditions prevailed that supported a lakeside vegetation at the Hops site and a more typical upland or mountainous zone assemblage around the Kozyaka site. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Ministry of Forest and Water Affairs; Research Fund of Istanbul UniversityIstanbul University [YOP-41738] The project Determination of Natural and Cultural Values and Development of Management Plan in the Seben Petrified Forest was undertaken by The Western Back Sea Forestry Research Institute (Bolu-Turkey) and supported by the Ministry of Forest and Water Affairs. We thank the Ministry, and Prof. Dr. Halim Mutlu, Nurullah Guller, Tuncay Guner and Ali Kaya for help in the field. Sample preparation was financed by the Research Fund of Istanbul University Project Number: YOP-41738. We are grateful to Tomas Denk for insightful comments whilst reviewing this paper. |
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