Outlines of the Mafic Dyke Swarm from Ladik Area, Nw Konya/Turkey

Abstract

The dyke swarm occurs in Ladik area, Central Turkey, exhibiting spectacular crosscutting field relationships between its different generations. The metadolerit and metahornblend gabro dyke swarms intruded into Silurian-lower Carboniferous reefal complex metacarbonates, which was low-grade metamorphosed limestone, dolomitic limestone and dolomite, with metachert band and lenses. A Google Earth Image is used to establish the relative emplacement of dyke swarms while image analyses used by Klonk software to reveal the length and thickness of the dykes. It has been determined existence of two set of mafic dyke swarms; trending in (i) ~E-W and (ii) ~N-S directions. Maximum length and thickness of the dykes are calculated to be 3078 m (i), and 73.11 m, respectively while the maximum length of fault can be traced as 743 m in the area. Cross-cutting field relations on the map suggest that majority of the E-W trending dyke swarms appears to be older than the N-S trending ones.