NORIAN MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY FROM THE SCHEIBLKOGEL SECTION, AUSTRIA - CONSTRAINT ON THE ORIGIN OF THE ANTALYA NAPPES, TURKEY

Late Triassic magnetostratigraphic investigations in southwestern Turk ey have suggested that parts of the Antalya Nappes are constituted of a melange of blocks originally deposited either in the vicinity of the northern tip of Arabia or, more surprisingly, directly north of India , in the southern hemisphere. In order to ascertain this result more c learly, we have correlated the Turkish series with Austrian sections o f corresponding age from the Northern Calcareous Alps, for which the h emisphere of deposition is beyond doubt. The new magnetostratigraphic results obtained from the Scheiblkogel section (Austria) confirm the p reviously suggested middle to late Norian magnetic polarity sequence a nd support the heterogeneous character of the Antalya Nappes.