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Achillea alimeana Semiz & Uysal sp. nov. of sect. Santolinoidea DC. (Asteraceae), was described, diagnosed and illustrated as a new species. It was collected from Akdağ Mountains in Denizli Province. In this paper, the diagnostic characters of A. alimeana and its similar species were discussed in the morphological, palynological and molecular findings. As regards the new species, some notes on the ecology, conservation status, and distribution were submitted. A diagnostic key was given for related taxa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Höyük Settlement is located within the boundary of Çal district of Denizli Province. It was strategically located on a natural passage and an important centre surrounded by walls during the 2nd millennium BC. Surveys conducted in the Upper Menderes Basin have revealed that the mountainous and plateau areas are at least as densely settled as in lowland sections and these areas have significant importance in archaeological point of view. An intensive archaeological survey was conducted in order to find answers on Höyük settlements. Therefore, The Middle and Late Bronze Age ceramics which were found in the settlement area were evaluated from archaeological and archaeometric perspective. These ceramics were characterized by using typological evaluations, optical microscopy and X-Ray Fluorescence analyses (XRF). Analogical evaluations shown that the settlement's interregional relations reach from Central Anatolian to the West Anatolian shores, but the local features known from Beycesultan are prominent. Archaeometric analyses revealed that the Middle and Late Bronze Age ceramics contain metamorphic rock fragments and very abundant carbonate. Small and fine quartz grains, a small amount of pyroxene and plagioclase minerals and abundant carbonate are observed in these samples. The results obtained from the intensive survey supported the idea that the importance of the settlements in the mountainous and plateau areas increased after the decline seen in the region in 16th century BC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Mineral assemblages of both cognate inclusions and host-lamprophyres with lamproitic affinity in Kocapınar district (Denizli), Western Anatolia, consist of phlogopitic mica, diopsidic clinopyroxene, K-feldspar, apatite, opaque and carbonates (calcite–dolomite). Two distinct types of cognate inclusions have been defined in host lamprophyres: clinopyroxene-rich (CCI) and clinopyroxene–phlogopite-rich (CPCI). Whole-rock compositions of inclusions show a near-primitive nature with high MgO (7.56–15.1wt.%), Cr (195–2270ppm), Ni (213–335ppm) contents and a potassic character [K2O (2.0–2.8wt.%)>Na2O (0.4–2.2wt.%)]. Data imply that the inclusions crystallized from magmas formed by melting of phlogopite-bearing pyroxenites in a peridotitic mantle source, however, the presence of reverse-zoning in clinopyroxenes with salitic Fe-rich green cores in host-lamprophyres and CPCI inclusions suggest that the Denizli lavas represent mixtures of distinct (probably ultrapotassic and alkali basaltic) magmas. Estimated geobarometric constraints inferred from clinopyroxene compositions in CCI and CPCI inclusions indicate moderate pressures of pyroxene crystallization (ranging between 1.7 and 2.2GPa and corresponding to 53–70km depths) under low pressure magma fractionation. Results reveal that i) the origin of Denizli lamprophyres with transitional (between arc-type and intra-plate-type) geochemical signatures is consistent with a shallow level mantle petrogenesis, rather than a deep-seated origin related to mantle convection, ii) the source was a highly refractory and metasomatized peridotitic mantle present at the base of the lower crust, iii) metasomatic agents that affected the mantle lithosphere beneath Denizli region are distinct from those beneath other western Anatolia orogenic centers, and iv) the transitional character of Kocapınar (Denizli) lamprophyric rocks were probably formed as a result of either underplating or contamination of asthenospheric magma at the base of the mantle lithosphere, or assimilation of delaminated continental edge-lithospheric mantle via ascending asthenosphere. Denizli lamprophyres are interpreted to have formed during the formation of a basin/graben structure in the Latest Miocene–Early Pliocene, just after Late Miocene exhumation of Menderes massif. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]