Landscapes and Landforms of Turkey
This book on Turkish geomorphology offers location descriptions, based on their dynamics and evolution processes, including hydrology, tectonics, volcanism, slopes, coasts, ice/snow, and wind. It presents landforms as a result of evolution (Quaternary, Ho
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Catherine Kuzucuoğlu Attila Çiner Nizamettin Kazancı Editors
Landscapes and Landforms of Turkey
World Geomorphological Landscapes Series editor Piotr Migoń, Wroclaw, Poland
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Catherine Kuzucuoğlu Attila Çiner • Nizamettin Kazancı Editors
Landscapes and Landforms of Turkey
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Editors Catherine Kuzucuoğlu Laboratory of Physical Geography (LGP, UMR 8591) CNRS, Universities of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris 12 U-Pec Meudon, France
Nizamettin Kazancı Ankara University Ankara, Turkey
Attila Çiner Istanbul Technical University Istanbul, Turkey
ISSN 2213-2090 ISSN 2213-2104 (electronic) World Geomorphological Landscapes ISBN 978-3-030-03513-6 ISBN 978-3-030-03515-0 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03515-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018960303 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword
So far, only five books have been published describing the landscapes of Turkey as a whole (Tchiatcheff 1866a, b; Güldalı 1979; Kurter 1979; Atalay 1982, 2nd edition 1987; Erol 1983). Ardos (1979) is a most inadequate account of the geomorphology of Turkey from a neotectonic perspective only, and Eken et al.’s (2006) magnificently illustrated volumes deal almost exclusively with biogeography and ecology with minimal data on landforms. None of these books could satisfy either the professional or the general reader interested in the landforms of Turkey both in terms of the material presented and in the manner it is presented. The book in your hand is the first trying to fill the void of a geomorphological description of Turkey, but it addresses itself mainly to the e
