Issue Date
2001-01-01Keywords
African PlateAnatolian Plate
East Anatolian Fault
Iskenderun Bay
plate tectonics
uplifts
neotectonics
marine sedimentation
tectonics
Turkey
sedimentation
upper Quaternary
Mediterranean Sea
East Mediterranean
faults
Foraminifera
Protista
Middle East
Mediterranean region
microfossils
Asia
Cenozoic
Quaternary
C 14
carbon
dates
isotopes
radioactive isotopes
Invertebrata
absolute age
Metadata
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Koral, H., Kronfeld, J., Avsar, N., Yanko, V., & Vogel, J. C. (2001). Major recent tectonic uplift in Iskenderun Bay, Turkey. Radiocarbon, 43(2B), 957-963.Journal
RadiocarbonDescription
From the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference held in Jerusalem, Israel, June 18-23, 2000.Additional Links
http://radiocarbon.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/Abstract
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.Type
Proceedingstext
Language
enISSN
0033-8222ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1017/S003382220004162X