Abstract According to the literature, the Adana Basin, at the easternmost part of the Mediterranean Basin in southern Turkey, records the Pliocene stage with shallow-marine to fluvial deposits. Our micropalaeontological analysis of samples from the Adana Basin reveal Late Lago–Mare biofacies with Paratethyan ostracod assemblages pertaining to the Loxocorniculina djafarovi zone. Grey clays rich in planktonic foraminifera lie above the Lago–Mare deposits. Within the grey clays, the continuous occurrence of the calcareous nannofossil Reticulofenestra zancleana and the base of the Reticulofenestra pseudoumbilicus paracme points to an Early Zanclean age (5.332–5.199 Ma). Both ostracod and benthic foraminifera indicate epibathyal and bathyal environments. 87 Sr/ 86 Sr measurements on planktonic and benthic foraminifera fall below the mean global ocean value for the Early Zanclean, indicating potentially insufficient mixing of low 87 Sr/ 86 Sr Mediterranean brackish ‘Lago–Mare’ water with the global ocean in the earliest Pliocene. We utilize the ages and palaeodepths of the marine sediments together with their modern elevations to determine uplift rates of the Adana Basin of 0.06 to 0.13 mm a −1 since 5.2–5.3 Ma (total uplift of 350–650 m) from surface data, and 0.02–0.13 mm a −1 since c. 1.8 Ma (total uplift of 30–230 m) from subsurface data. Supplementary material: Microphotographs of foraminifers, ostracods, and calcareous nannofossils, plots of the calcareous nannofossil frequencies, occurrence of foraminifers and ostracods in the study sections, results of Sr isotopic analysis, and a complete list of fossils are available at http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/SUP18535 .

Abstract The Alikayasi Canyon Member of the Tekir Formation occurs in a thick sequence of deep-water slope deposits on the northern margin and center of the lower-middle Miocene Maras foreland basin in eastern Turkey. The canyon was one of at least four major sediment-bypass systems that sourced from a narrow shelf otherwise occupied by thick, coeval carbonate reefs. What remains of the source hinterland indicates that thick fan deltas propagated directly into the heads of the deep-water canyons that characterize these bypass systems. The Alikayasi Canyon is exposed as an almost completely exhumed sediment body in an area of sparse vegetation, where the contemporaneous shelf margin is still largely intact, and it represents the youngest of these four systems. It forms a 7-km (4-mi)-long, up to 300-m (984-ft)-high, and up to 1-km (0.6-mi)-wide sediment body, dissected once by a river, which is now drowned by an artificial lake behind the Menzelet Dam. The exposure is complete apart from a 1.5 km (0.9 mi) section through its most proximal reaches, and a 2 km (1.2 mi) section in its most distal reaches where it feeds into a series of sandy lobes. The canyon fill is characterized by stratified conglomerates and pebbly sandstones in its lower part, stratified conglomerates and braid-plain-style conglomerates and pebbly sandstones in its middle part, and steeply dipping fan-delta conglomerate clinoforms in its upper part. The axial area of the canyon is dominated by these coarse-grained deposits, although locally remnants of intracanyon shales, in the form of floating rafts, shale blocks, and clasts,

Abstract The Tinker channel is exposed in a series of dip and strike sections to the east of Hasret Mountain, near Elazig, in eastern Turkey ( Figure 1A ). The exposures are part of the exhumed northern margin of the northeast-to-southwest-oriented Elazig Basin, which has almost continuous exposures for 75 km (46 mi) in the high eastern Anatolian badlands ( Cronin et al., 2005 ). The outcrop allows study of a series of time-equivalent stratigraphic intervals through a clastic system that propagated from the elevated middle Eocene hinterlands and narrow shelves to the north, toward the deep basin axis to the south and east. The Kirkgecit Formation is interpreted as a predominantly low net-to-gross, deep-water, slope-environment succession, which has infilled a topographically irregular basin margin, created during basin formation in a rapidly subsiding back-arc setting. Incised and entrenched slope-channel complexes contain most of the coarser grained, deep-water clastic sediment within the Kirkgecit Formation. The Tinker channel ( Cronin et al., 2000b ) is one of a series of such channel-complex exposures that allow detailed examination of the fill and overbank stratigraphic architecture. The main Tinker channel exposures are to the east of Hasret Mountain, 15 km (9 mi) east of the city of Elazig. The channel is located 3 km (1.8 mi) downdip of the inferred contemporaneous slope break (Karadag, Figure IB). It is the most proximal channel of a series of four slope-channel complexes ( Figure 1C ) that occur within the same stratigraphic interval. The Tinker channel was documented by Cronin et al. (2000b) and the architecture and chronology of the enveloping deep-water slope succession by Cronin et al. (2000a).