<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Lake Eğirdir is one of the most important fresh-water lakes of Turkey. It has a tectonics-related origin. The area formed under a roughly N-S compressional tectonic regime during the Middle Miocene. The stresses caused slip faults west and east of Isparta Angle, and the lake formed at the junction of these faults. The area subsided between normal faults, thus creating the topographic condition required for a lake. The lacustrine sediments have fundamentally different lithologies. After the Late Miocene, central Anatolia started to move westwards, but western Anatolia moved in a SW direction along the South-western Anatolian Fault, which we suggest to have a left lateral slip, which caused that the Hoyran Basin moved t7 km towards the SW and rotated 40° counterclockwise relative to Lake Eğirdir.</p></abstract>

Lake Eğirdir is one of the most important fresh-water lakes of Turkey. It has a tectonics-related origin. The area formed under a roughly N-S compressional tectonic regime during the Middle Miocene. The stresses caused slip faults west and east of Isparta Angle, and the lake formed at the junction of these faults. The area subsided between normal faults, thus creating the topographic condition required for a lake. The lacustrine sediments have fundamentally different lithologies. After the Late Miocene, central Anatolia started to move westwards, but western Anatolia moved in a SW direction along the South-western Anatolian Fault, which we suggest to have a left lateral slip, which caused that the Hoyran Basin moved t7 km towards the SW and rotated 40° counterclockwise relative to Lake Eğirdir.

The tectonic evolution of Lake Eğirdir, West Turkey

Department of Geological Engineering, Akdeniz University, 07058 Campus Antalya, Turkey

Geologos

{"article-title":"The tectonic evolution of Lake Eğirdir, West Turkey"}

Lake Eğirdir is one of the most important fresh-water lakes of Turkey. It has a tectonics-related origin. The area formed under a roughly N-S compressional...

The tectonic evolution of Lake Eğirdir, West Turkey

Published Online: Jan 17, 2011

Page range: 223 - 234

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10118-010-0006-x

Keywords
tectonic evolution, Lake Eğirdir, Isparta Angle, rotation, South-western Anatolian Fault, Burdur-Fethiye Fault Zone, Miocene-Pleistocene

This content is open access.

The tectonic evolution of Lake Eğirdir, West Turkey

Published Online: Jan 17, 2011

Page range: 223 - 234

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10118-010-0006-x

Keywordstectonic evolution, Lake Eğirdir, Isparta Angle, rotation, South-western Anatolian Fault, Burdur-Fethiye Fault Zone, Miocene-Pleistocene

This content is open access.

Keywords
tectonic evolution, Lake Eğirdir, Isparta Angle, rotation, South-western Anatolian Fault, Burdur-Fethiye Fault Zone, Miocene-Pleistocene