Recent Stratigraphic Developments Regarding The SıPahıLı Formation Of Early Cambrian Age

The area between Silifke and Anamur provides a good opportunity to investigate stratigraphic and tectonic problems of the Central Taurus Belt. This area has been subjected to very detailed geological investigations since 1975. All lithostratigraphic units of this region ranging in age from Cambrian to Miocene have been carefully identified and named. The area has been mapped in a scale of 1/25.000. Geological reports of these investigations are existed in the files of the General Directorate of MTA (Demirtaşlı, 1982, 1983). Results of these geological investigations have also been published (Demirtaşlı, 1984, 1985). In spite of all these unpublished and published geological data some investigators studied in this area claimed that the age of the Sipahili Formation is Cretaceous (Özalp and Demirkol, 2003; Özgül and Kozlu, 1993). Very recently samples have been collected from various levels of the Sipahili Formation yielded Early Cambrian conodonts and trilobites. Determination of these samples were made by Prof. Dr. İsmet Gedik, Karadeniz Technical University.