Across the Anatolian Plateau: Readings in the Archaeology of Ancient Turkey

2000 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. i ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Hopkins
Keyword(s):  
Anatolian Plateau

Early Pleistocene (Calabrian) marine bottom oxygenation and palaeoclimate at the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau

2018 ◽  
Vol 137 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazik Öğretmen ◽  
Virgilio Frezza ◽  
Natália Hudáčková ◽  
Elsa Gliozzi ◽  
Paola Cipollari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Anatolian Plateau ◽  
Southern Margin

Evolution of Orogenic Plateaus at Subduction Zones - Sinking and raising the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fernández-Blanco
Keyword(s):  
Tectonic Evolution ◽  
Subduction Zones ◽  
Inversion Tectonics ◽  
High Discharge ◽  
Anatolian Plateau ◽  
Surface Uplift ◽  
Southern Margin ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Forearc Basins ◽  
Orogenic Plateaus

Orogenic plateaus have raised abundant attention amongst geoscientists during the last decades, offering unique opportunities to better understand the relationships between tectonics and climate, and their expression on the Earth’s surface.Orogenic plateau margins are key areas for understanding the mechanisms behind plateau (de)formation. Plateau margins are transitional areas between domains with contrasting relief and characteristics; the roughly flat elevated plateau interior, often with internally drained endorheic basins, and the external steep areas, deeply incised by high-discharge rivers. This thesis uses a wide range of structural and tectonic approaches to investigate the evolution of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau (CAP), studying an area between the plateau interior and the Cyprus arc. Several findings are presented here that constrain the evolution, timing and possible causes behind the development of this area, and thus that of the CAP. After peneplanation of the regional orogeny, abroad regional subsidence took place in Miocene times in the absence of major extensional faults, which led to the formation of a large basin in the northeast Mediterranean. Late Tortonian and younger contractional structures developed in the interior of the plateau, in its margin and offshore, and forced the inversion tectonics that fragmented the early Miocene basin into the different present-day domains. The tectonic evolution of the southern margin of the CAP can be explained based on the initiation of subduction in south Cyprus and subsequent thermo-mechanical behavior of this subduction zone and the evolving rheology of the Anatolian plate. The Cyprus slab retreat and posterior pull drove subsidence first by relatively minor stretching of the crust and then by its flexure. The growth by accretion and thickening of the upper plate, and that of the associated forearc basins system, caused by accreting sediments, led to rheological changes at the base of the crust that allowed thermal weakening, viscous deformation, driving subsequent surface uplift and raising the modern Taurus Mountains. This mechanism could be responsible for the uplifted plateau-like areas seen in other accretionary margins. ISBN: 978-90-9028673-0

6600–6000 cal BC Abrupt Climate Change and Neolithic Dispersal from West Asia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernhard Weninger ◽  
Lee Clare
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Abrupt Climate Change ◽  
Western Anatolia ◽  
Southeast Europe ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Anatolian Plateau ◽  
Decadal Scale ◽  
Early Farming ◽  
New Hypothesis

Recent advances in palaeoclimatological and meteorological research, combined with new radiocarbon data from western Anatolia and southeast Europe, lead us to formulate a new hypothesis for the temporal and spatial dispersal of Neolithic lifeways from their core areas of genesis. The new hypothesis, which we term the Abrupt Climate Change (ACC) Neolithization Model, incorporates a number of insights from modern vulnerability theory. We focus here on the Late Neolithic (Anatolian terminology), which is followed in the Balkans by the Early Neolithic (European terminology). From high-resolution 14C-case studies, we infer an initial (very rapid) west-directed movement of early farming communities out of the Central Anatolian Plateau towards the Turkish Aegean littoral. This move is exactly in phase (decadal scale) with the onset of ACC conditions (~6600 cal BC). Upon reaching the Aegean coastline, Neolithic dispersal comes to a halt. It is not until some 500 years later—that is, at the close of cumulative ACC and 8.2 ka cal BP Hudson Bay cold conditions—that there occurs a second abrupt movement of farming communities into Southeast Europe, as far as the Pannonian Basin. The spread of early farming from Anatolia into eastern Central Europe is best explained as Neolithic communities’ mitigation of biophysical and social vulnerability to natural (climate-induced) hazards.

The climatic, topographic and litho-tectonic characteristics of badlands in Turkey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aydogan Avcioglu ◽  
Tolga Gorum ◽  
Abdullah Akbas ◽  
Mariano Moreno de las Heras ◽  
Omer Yetemen
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Spatial Coherence ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
Controlling Factors ◽  
Mean Annual Precipitation ◽  
Rainfall Erosivity ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Anatolian Plateau ◽  
Precipitation Seasonality

<p>Badland areas are present in all continents, excluding Antarctica, and play a critical role in establishing local erosion and sedimentation rates. The presence of unconsolidated rocks (e.g., marls, sandstone, mudstone etc.) is a major driver controlling the distribution of badlands, which together with other environmental components, such as climate, tectonics, vegetation, and topography, determine their forms and processes. The mutual interaction of controlling factors in badlands areas provides a basis for developing a holistic approach to clarify their distribution patterns. Turkey's geodynamic evolution has led to the emergence of marine sedimentary rocks, pyroclastics, and continental clastics, especially in line with the uplift of the Anatolian Plateau and volcanism during the last 8 Ma.</p><p>This study aims to explore the country-scale distribution of badlands and the controlling factors of this badland distribution in Turkey. Remarkably wide badlands landscapes (4494 km<sup>2</sup>) have been visually inspected using Google Earth Pro<sup>TM</sup> to further digitize and extract geomorphological units by applying high-resolution multispectral images provided by WorldView-4/Maxar Technology and CNES/Airbus. To obtain exact boundaries, we eliminated contiguous flat areas surrounding the identified badlands by using red relief image map (RRIM) mosaics that express surface concavity and convexity combined with topographic slope derived from a digital elevation model of 5-m spatial resolution. Last, to determine the controlling factors of badlands distribution, we have compiled a global data set comprising 1-km resolution layers of mean annual precipitation, temperature and precipitation seasonality, aridity, NDVI, rainfall erosivity factor, elevation, and majority values of regional lithology in sub-catchments units. The enhanced investigation of the complex relationship that expresses the controlling factors of badlands distribution, has been conducted by K-means unsupervised cluster analysis.</p><p>Our comprehensive regional analyses exploring the distribution and environmental attributes of major Turkish badlands identified five different groups or clusters of badlands that display spatial coherence with climatic and tectonic settings. We argue that Turkey's climatic and topographic transition zones, varying from Mediterranean climate dominated areas to the more arid Central Anatolian Plateau, and tectonically‑induced topographic barriers play a relevant role in discriminating these groups of badlands. Moreover, the Anatolian diversity of sedimentary rocks, which consists of Neogene and Paleogene continental clastics, volcano clastics & pyroclastics, and lacustrine deposits, makes an essential contribution to the identified, extensive badland distribution.</p><p>This study has been produced benefiting from the 2232 International Fellowship for Outstanding Researchers Program of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) through grant 118C329. The financial support received from TUBITAK does not mean that the content of the publication is approved in a scientific sense by TUBITAK.</p>

Kınık Höyük in South Cappadocia

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo d’Alfonso ◽  
Lorenzo Castellano
Keyword(s):  
Taurus Mountains ◽  
Anatolian Plateau ◽  
Cultural Developments

AbstractThis note complements the preliminary comparative stratigraphy of excavated sites of Cilicia published in AoF 44/2 with the new stratigraphic data obtained at the ongoing excavation of Niğde Kınık Höyük, in South Cappadocia. South Cappadocia lies directly north of Cilicia beyond the Taurus mountains, and from Prehistory it has controlled the access from Cilicia to the Anatolian Plateau. The region knew periods of minor, and more intense, participation in the cultural developments experienced in Cilicia, and the note is intended to provide basic stratigraphic information to start the study of this relation in a more precise and comprehensive way. The note only adds the information for the site of Kınık Höyük, but it is a strong invitation to other colleagues working in Cappadocia to build a similar comparative stratigraphy.

Rapid late Miocene surface uplift of the Central Anatolian Plateau margin

2018 ◽  
Vol 497 ◽  
pp. 29-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maud J.M. Meijers ◽  
Gilles Y. Brocard ◽  
Michael A. Cosca ◽  
Tina Lüdecke ◽  
Christian Teyssier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Miocene ◽  
Anatolian Plateau ◽  
Surface Uplift

scholarly journals Melt equilibration depths as sensors of lithospheric thickness during Eurasia-Arabia collision and the uplift of the Anatolian Plateau

Geology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (10) ◽  
pp. 943-947 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.R. Reid ◽  
J.R. Delph ◽  
M.A. Cosca ◽  
W.K. Schleiffarth ◽  
G. Gençalioğlu Kuşcu
Keyword(s):  
Late Miocene ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Suture Zone ◽  
Arabian Plate ◽  
Seismic Structure ◽  
Eurasian Plate ◽  
Lithospheric Thickness ◽  
Anatolian Plateau

Abstract A co-investigation of mantle melting conditions and seismic structure revealed an evolutionary record of mantle dynamics accompanying the transition from subduction to collision along the Africa-Eurasia margin and the >1 km uplift of the Anatolian Plateau. New 40Ar/39Ar dates of volcanic rocks from the Eastern Taurides (southeast Turkey) considerably expand the known spatial extent of Miocene-aged mafic volcanism following a magmatic lull over much of Anatolia that ended at ca. 20 Ma. Mantle equilibration depths for these chemically diverse basalts are interpreted to indicate that early to middle Miocene lithospheric thickness in the region varied from ∼50 km or less near the Bitlis suture zone to ∼80 km near the Inner Tauride suture zone. This southward-tapering lithospheric base could be a vestige of the former interface between the subducted (and now detached) portion of the Arabian plate and the overriding Eurasian plate, and/or a reflection of mantle weakening associated with greater mantle hydration trenchward prior to collision. Asthenospheric upwelling driven by slab tearing and foundering along this former interface, possibly accompanied by convective removal of the lithosphere, could have led to renewed volcanic activity after 20 Ma. Melt equilibration depths for late Miocene and Pliocene basalts together with seismic imaging of the present lithosphere indicate that relatively invariant lithospheric thicknesses of 60–70 km have persisted since the middle Miocene. Thus, no evidence is found for large-scale (tens of kilometers) Miocene delamination of the lower lithosphere from the overriding plate, which has been proposed elsewhere to account for late Miocene and younger uplift of Anatolia.

Joint inversion of P- and S-receiver functions and dispersion curves of Rayleigh waves: The results for the Central Anatolian Plateau

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 622-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. P. Vinnik ◽  
M. Erduran ◽  
S. I. Oreshin ◽  
G. L. Kosarev ◽  
Yu. A. Kutlu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rayleigh Waves ◽  
Joint Inversion ◽  
Receiver Functions ◽  
Dispersion Curves ◽  
Anatolian Plateau

Early Cultures of the South Anatolian Plateau, II

1963 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 199-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Mellaart
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
The South ◽  
Anatolian Plateau ◽  
Late Chalcolithic ◽  
Chalcolithic Period

The end of the Çatal Hüyük West culture is shrouded in mystery. Both Çatal and Kara Hüyük South were apparently deserted and never reoccupied and it is only at Can Hasan Hüyük east of Karaman that later deposits have been recognised overlying remains of the early Chalcolithic culture. Elsewhere the evidence lies buried in the cores of the numerous city mounds of the Early Bronze Age period. Late Chalcolithic remains are fairly common in the Konya Plain, but they were in nearly every case found on sites where no earlier or later remains were encountered. This might suggest a shift in the settlement pattern of the plain after the end of the Early Chalcolithic period (see map, Fig. 1).

R.E.C.A.M. Notes and Studies No. 1: Inscriptions of Ancyra

1977 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 63-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Considerable Importance ◽  
General Study ◽  
Anatolian Plateau ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Baths ◽  
The Temple

Even a hurried glance at the walls of the Byzantine citadel, or a rapid inspection of the material collected by the Ankara Archaeological Museum at the depot in the Roman baths is enough to show that Ankara contains a richer collection of Greek and Latin inscriptions than almost any other city of the Anatolian plateau. A long sequence of epigraphic publications stretches back to 1555 when the companions of Augier Ghiselin de Busbecq, ambassador to the court of Suleiman the Magnificent, made the first copy of the Res Gestae, inscribed on the walls of the temple of Rome and Augustus. Since then a succession of travellers and epigraphists has added to the total of known inscriptions, and even if none of their discoveries can rank beside the record which the first emperor published of his life and actions, many of them are of considerable importance both for the history of Ancyra itself and in the wider context of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine world.However, any general study of these inscriptions and their historical implications has been hampered by the fact that they are scattered in a wide range of publications, many of them difficult to obtain. This situation has been partially remedied by Professor E. Bosch's Quellen zur Geschichte der Stadt Ankara im Altertum, completed in its essentials by 1945, but only published after the author's death by the TTK press in Ankara in 1967. This contains a large proportion of the source material relevant to the city's history from its earliest appearance in the classical sources to the age of Constantine, accompanied by a commentary in German. However, despite its usefulness, the book has not fulfilled the need for a full corpus of the city's inscriptions.

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