Schematic overview of Turkish-Anatolian tectonics

Nuri Kaymakci contributes his expertise to the ISES Europe-Africa convergence integrated program. Projects are related to the geodynamic and paleogeographic evolution of the Middle Miocene East Tethys gateway, on the collision history of the Arabian and Eurasian plate in SE Anatolia, and on the Mesozoic geodynamics of the circum - Black Sea area, using paleomagnetic constraints on timing and kinematic evolution.

Nuri Kaymakci has finished a PhD study – at Utrecht University - on the tectonostratigraphic evolution of the Çankiri Basin (Central Anatolia, Turkey). His present position is at the Middle East Technical University (METU) of Ankara. His research entails using available (un)published data, satellite and airborne imagery (gravity and magnetics), paleostress inversion techniques, as well as paleomagnetism and integrated stratigraphy. As an ISES Visiting Research Fellow, Nuri Kaymakci is involved in a number of projects in the  Europe-Africa convergence programme. These are:

• Geodynamic and paleogeographic evolution of the East Tethys gateway during the middle Miocene and its influence on the environmental conditions in the circum-Mediterranean region. Researcher: Silja Huesing

Silja sampling in SE Turkey, with Ferhat and Murat

• The collision history of the Arabian and Eurasian plate in SE Anatolia: paleomagnetic constraints on timing and kinematic evolution. Researcher: vacancy

Eocene to Miocene limestones in SE Turkey, near Hoya 

• Opening and closure of the Tethys oceans: Mesozoic Cimmerian deformation around the present-day Black Sea. Researcher: Maud Meijers

Maud Meijers in a Jurassic reefal limestone section in the western Caucasus

• Kaymakci, N., Aldanmaz, E., Langereis, C.G., Spell, T.L., Gurer, O.F., Zanetti, K.A. (2007). Constraints on the late Miocene transcurrent tectonics of NW Turkey: evidence from paleomagnetism and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of the alkaline volcanic rocks, Geol. Mag., doi:10.1017/S0016756806003074 

• Kaymakci, N., Duermeijer, C., Langereis, C.G., White, S.H. and van Dijk, P.M. (2003). Palaeomagnetic evolution of the Cankiri Basin (central Anatolia Turkey): implications for oroclinal bending due to indentation, Geol. Mag., 140 (3), 2003, pp. 343–355.