Neotectonic evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean region
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Neotectonic evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean region Oğuz Göğüş1 · Ömer Emre2 · Hasan Sözbilir3 Accepted: 11 November 2020 / Published online: 3 December 2020 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG part of Springer Nature 2020
It is our pleasure to introduce you the special issue in the Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews titled as Neotectonic Evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean Region dedicated to Dr Fuat Şaroğlu, who made immense contributions to our understanding on active faulting, earthquake hazards, and the neotectonic evolution of the Anatolian lithosphere and its plate boundaries. Anyone who deals with the intricate geological problems of this part of the world where three of the world’s tectonic plates interact with each other (Africa–Eurasia–Anatolia) would appreciate the findings of Şaroğlu’s work because often times they reveal themselves to be the key elements of the Eastern Mediterranean’s tectonic framework. Notably, Şaroğlu is one of the founders of the Active Fault Map of Turkey (1992) where today this accounts as a generic reference for researchers from diverse backgrounds of Earth Sciences and related fields, such as, geodesy, structural geology, morphotectonics, seismology, petrology, stratigraphy and geodynamics.
* Oğuz Göğüş [email protected] 1
Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
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FUGRO-SIAL Geosciences Consulting and Engineering, Ankara, Turkey
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Geological Engineering, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey
Fuat Şaroğlu was born on the 16th of January in 1945 in Mardin/Southeast Turkey. He completed his B.Sc. in Geology at the department of Earth Sciences in Istanbul University in 1969 and this followed obtaining M.Sc. at the same department in 1972. He completed his Ph.D. in 1986 under the supervision of Prof. Yücel Yılmaz, a leading figure in the Geology of Turkey, with dissertation title Structural and Geological evolution of East Anatolia during Neotectonics period. In his Ph.D., Şaroğlu conducted field studies nearly across the entire East Anatolian Plateau where he meticulously documented NE–SW and NW–SE oriented strike slip and E–W thrust fault systems, and related basins, formed as a response to the Arabia–Eurasia plate convergence. This was one of the earlier studies that show how plate shortening in the collision systems deforms the crust in the Anatolian segment of the Alpine orogeny where accretion, escape tectonics and magmatism prevails. Between 1969 and 1995, Şaroğlu worked in the Geology Department of MTA (General Directorate and Mineral Research and Exploration) where he and his research team carried out field studies and active fault mapping throughout the entire country. His professional career continued after his retirement from MTA and took position at Turkish
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Petroleum (TPAO) between 1996 and 2003. While working as a consultant for various companies, he was invited to give lecture series as a visiting scholar at Çukurova, Hace
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