Abstract
The ophiolites of the Antalya nappes, cropping out in the area of Kemer (southwestern Turkey), are capped by a spectacular detrital sequence composed of various ophiolitic breccias whose total thickness reaches 1000 m. Four main formations have been distinguished within the breccias. The basal formations are in depositional contact over the previously tectonized and eroded deepest part of the ophiolites. The upper breccias are dated as middle Maastrichtian, which is the age of the deposition of synchronous serpentinitic olistostromes onto the continental margin. These data suggest that the breccias formed as debris slides from bathymetric highs on the ocean crust as a result of renewed tectonic activity accompanying ob-duction onto the continental margin.
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