A. Ayhan, Stratiform barite deposits between Sarkikaraagac (Isparta) and Huyuk (Konya) in Sultandag region, Turkey, CHEM ERDE-G, 61(1), 2001, pp. 54-66
The most important and mineable barite deposits located between Huyuk and S
arkikaraagac in the southwestern part of the Sultandag region of western Ta
urus in Turkey occur essentially in a zone with an extension of 12 km in th
e Yellice and Kuyucak formations of Silurian-Devonian age.
Barites were formed as a stratiform type, and are hosted by carbonates and
pelitic rocks. Although these rocks have undergone weak metamorphism to the
greenschist facies, sufficient indications of primary depositional fabrics
were preserved in the barite layers and lenses. They show sedimentary and
diagenetic structures such as the banded, layered nature of barite, rhythmi
city, cross-bedding, geopetal fabrics, and diagenetic recrystallization.
Sulfur isotope data from barite samples indicate that the sulfate ions were
supplied from coeval seawater. According to the present data, the barites
were deposited in a basin with an irregular paleotopography influenced by t
he synsedimentary faults. The probably source of barium was brines derived
from the Seydisehir Formation.