Alçiçek M.C.Mayda S.Alçiçek H.2019-10-272019-10-2720121631-07131631-0713https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2012.01.003https://hdl.handle.net/11454/26701The çal Basin formed in the late Miocene as an orogen-top rift hosting terrestrial sedimentation. The initial array of alluvial fans in a half-graben basin was replaced by an axial meandering-river system during the late Tortonian. Palaeomammal taxa indicate a mid-Turolian age of the deposits and a grass-dominated steppe ecosystem. Isotopic data from pedogenic carbonates indicate a warm, semiarid to arid climate. Subhumid to humid climatic conditions prevailed in the Pliocene, with a palustrine environment and savannah-type open ecosystem, recording a regional response to the marine flooding that terminated the Messinian 'salinity crisis' in the Mediterranean. Pleistocene saw re-establishment of a fluvial system in the basin with the development of an open steppe ecosystem in warm, semiarid to arid climatic conditions. The sedimentary facies analysis of the basin-fill succession, combined with biostratigraphic data, render the basin a regional reference and help to refine the Neogene tectono-climatic history of SW Anatolia. © 2012 Académie des sciences.en10.1016/j.crte.2012.01.003info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessFossil mammalsOrogen-top riftPalaeoclimatePalaeogeographyStratigrapic correlationTerrestrial sedimentationFaunal and palaeoenvironmental changes in the çal Basin, SW Anatolia: Implications for regional stratigraphic correlation of late Cenozoic basinsArticle34428998Q2