MIS 5a and MIS 3 relatively high sea-level stands on the Hatay—Samandağ Coast, Eastern Mediterranean, Turkey by Uğur Doğan, Ali Koçyiğit, Baki Varol, İsmail Özer, Anatoly Molodkov, Emre Zöhra, 2012 (original) (raw)

Abstract

The coastal belt of HatayeSamanda g in the East Mediterranean is marked by the intersection of the AfricaneArabian and Eurasian (Anatolian platelet) plates, where several Quaternary shorelines related to relative sea-level changes can be seen above the current sea level. In this study, the most common and best preserved high sea-level markers of the Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5 and MIS 3 shorelines were dated for the first time using the mollusc-based electron spin resonance (ESR) method. As a result of this research, the age of the late MIS 5 and MIS 3 sea-level highstands in the Eastern Mediterranean, the elevation of the corresponding shoreline at Samanda g coast, and the vertical component of the late Quaternary tectonic movements, which has an impact on shoreline, were determined. The shorelines at 48e43 m elevations between Çevlik and Samanda g, at 58.6 m in Tekebaşı and at 21 m at Kelda g have been dated to approximately 72 ka and, therefore, are correlated with MIS 5a. The shoreline at 40e39 m elevations between Çevlik and Samanda g has been dated to approximately 53 ka and, therefore, is correlated with MIS 3. According to the position of the MIS 5a shorelines, the uplift rate over the last 72 ka was 0.88 mm/y between Çevlik and Samanda g, 1.08 mm/y in Tekebaşı, and 0.56 mm/y in Kelda g, yielding a 0.84 mm/y average. This rather fast uplift appears to be related to the vertical component of the strike-slip active faults in the Samanda geAntakya Fault Zone.

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