Active strike-slip basins along the North Anatolian Fault in the

Active strike-slip basins along the North Anatolian Fault in the

Geowissenschaftliches Kolloquium
Active strike-slip basins along the
North Anatolian Fault in the Marmara
Sea - origin and evolution
Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2016 - 16.15 Uhr
Aral Okay (Istanbul Technical University)
Prof. Aral Okay is a professor at the Istanbul Technical University (ITÜ).
After his PhD from the University of Cambridge, he worked in the Geological Survey of Turkey (1980-1983) and then joined the ITÜ. His recent
interests are tectonics and regional geology of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea region. He was an Alexander von Humboldt
fellow in the Ruhr-Universität (1994-1995) and a Fullbright scholar at
UCSB (2006-2007).
Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften
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Malteserstrasse 74-100
12249 Berlin
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The North Anatolian Fault is
one of the largest active strikeslip faults extending for 1600
km from the Eastern Anatolia to
the Aegean with a cumulative
offset of 50-80 km. Its tectonic activity has led to the formation of the Marmara Sea, which
consists of three depressions, over 1200 m deep, filled by post-Miocene sediments over
4-km-thick. They constitute one of the best examples of strike-slip basins, with their 3D
geometry revealed by the seismic reflection sections.