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Projects
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More information about ongoing projects will follow soon ...
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2017 - Present
Badland development in a Temperate Mediterranean setting, western Turkey
Wageningen University & Research (WUR), the Netherlands
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
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This multi-disciplinary project aimed at investigating the spatio-temporal causes governing extensive surface erosion in semi-arid Mediterranean Badlands in Quaternary time scales with a study case, Kula Badlands (western Turkey). The main activites were:
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> Description of geological units, structural elements, geomorphological features and specific badland landforms through field-based geological and structural mapping,
> Setting up a geochronological framework (including sedimentation ages and erosion rates) using appropriate luminescence and radiocarbon dating techniques,
> Production of a stratigraphic reconstruction and 4D geological/tectonic model,
> Testing the role of active and inherited tectonics, climate change and lithology in erosion and sedimentation behaviour through numerical erosion modelling (i.e. LEM LAPSUS).
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The results show that the development of Kula Badlands has been conditioned and controlled by a complex interplay between climate change, inherited tectonic structure and Quaternary fault reactivation in a newly mapped graben structure. Two sets of roughly NW–SE and NE–SW-orientated large faults are shown to play a prominent role in syn-kinematic sediment routing, erosion and re-sedimentation within Quaternary.
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2015
The geomorphological evolution of a mountain slope in a tectonically active region: the Sennwald Landslide, Switzerland
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), Switzerland
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The Sennwald project is an investigation of a palaeo-rock avalanche of the Lower Cretaceous Helvetic limestones in the south-eastern wall of the Säntis Nappe, eastern Switzerland. The Sennwald rock avalanche was inspected using a multidisciplinary approach integrating field-based mapping of landslide deposits and morphological features, sedimentary petrography and surface exposure dating of landslide deposits, and dynamic run-out modelling, as well as an analysis of triggers of similar palaeolandslides at an Alpine scale.
2012
Structure and the development of karst topography in a gently deformed region, Güme, central Taurus Mountain, Turkey
Istanbul Technical University (Ä°TÜ), Turkey
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This project aims to understand the role of the rock structure and tectonic uplift on the development of karst topography in gently deformed Miocene sediments in central Taurus Mountain. The karst morphology and its development were studied with the first detailed field-based geological mapping of the deformed Miocene strata, sedimentological and structural analysis of the carbonate rocks, as well as examination of the drainage network with respect to the rock structure. The classification of the karstic landform features was also made to understand the influence of the rock structure on their development.
