The Southeast Anatolian orogen part of the Mediterraneari-Himalayan orogenic belt may be divided into three approximately E-W-trending zones. From south to north they are the Arabian platform an imbricated zone and a nappe zone. The eastern pail of the Arabian platform includes a lower Paleozoic to lower Miocene sedimentary sequence and ophiolitic rocks that were obducted on the platform during Late Cretaceous time. Also in the eastern part of the nappe zone consisting of lower and upper nappe ...