A NEW MIDDLE EOCENE MARINE SECTION FROM ELAZIĞ PROVINCE, CENTRAL TURKEY: NEW PALEOCEANOGRAPHIC AND PALEOCLIMATIC CONSTRAINTS ON THE MIDDLE EOCENE CLIMATIC OPTIMUM


Daniel Rodelli1, Luigi Jovane2, Martino Giorgioni3, Ercan Özcan4, Rodolfo Coccioni5, Fabrizio Frontalini6, György Less7, James R Hein8, Lucy Gomes Sant'Anna3, Rita Catanzariti9, Masoud A. Rostami10, Andrea Brogi11 and Eric Siciliano Rego12, (1)Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, (2)Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo, Department of Fisical Oceanography, São Paulo, Brazil, (3)USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, (4)Istanbul Technical University, Maslak, Turkey, (5)University of Urbino, Urbino, Italy, (6)Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Dipartimento di Scienze Pure e Applicate, Urbino, Italy, (7)University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary, (8)U.S. Geological Survey, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (9)Consiglio Nazionale dele Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Pisa, Italy, (10)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (11)University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy, (12)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States