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Major Recent Tectonic Uplift in Iskenderun Bay, Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

H Koral,
J Kronfeld,
N Avsar,
V Yanko and
J C Vogel
H Koral
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Istanbul University, Avcilar 34850, Istanbul, Turkey
J Kronfeld
Affiliation:
Department of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat-Aviv 69978, Israel
N Avsar
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Engineering, Cukurova University, Balcali 01330, Adana, Turkey
V Yanko
Affiliation:
Avalon Institute for Applied Sciences, Winnipeg, MB, R3P 2G9, Canada
J C Vogel
Affiliation:
Quaternary Dating Research Unit, CSIR, POB 395, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa
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Radiocarbon dating was carried out in the sediment profiles of four marine sediment cores taken from Iskenderun Bay, Turkey. The bay is quite shallow in the present day, and a previous tectonic study had considered that the bay floor might have been subsiding. However, this cannot be so, for the 14C ages would thereby lead to the apparent paradox of normal marine sedimentation having taken place during times when glacio-eustatic sea level lowering would have exposed the bay floor. Rather, we conclude that the floor of Iskenderun Bay on the whole has been experiencing rapid uplift since the end of the Last Glacial, due to a combination of tectonic factors linked to the compression between the Anatolian and African plates.

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II. Our ‘Wet’ Environment
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Radiocarbon , Volume 43 , Issue 2B: Proceedings of the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 2 of 3), Conference Editors: Israel Carmi, Elisabetta Boaretto , 2001, pp. 957 - 963
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Copyright © 2001 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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