TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schildgen, Taylor F.
A1  - Cosentino, D.
A1  - Bookhagen, Bodo
A1  - Niedermann, Samuel
A1  - Yildirim, C.
A1  - Echtler, Helmut Peter
A1  - Wittmann, Hella
A1  - Strecker, Manfred
T1  - Multi-phased uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian plateau, Turkey a record of tectonic and upper mantle processes
JF  - Earth & planetary science letters
N2  - Uplifted Neogene marine sediments and Quaternary fluvial terraces in the Mut Basin, southern Turkey, reveal a detailed history of surface uplift along the southern margin of the Central Anatolian plateau from the Late Miocene to the present. New surface exposure ages (Be-10, Al-26, and Ne-21) of gravels capping fluvial strath terraces located between 28 and 135 m above the Goksu River in the Mut Basin yield ages ranging from ca. 25 to 130 ka, corresponding to an average incision rate of 0.52 to 0.67 mm/yr. Published biostratigraphic data combined with new interpretations of the fossil assemblages from uplifted marine sediments reveal average uplift rates of 0.25 to 0.37 mm/yr since Late Miocene time (starting between 8 and 5.45 Ma), and 0.72 to 0.74 mm/yr after 1.66 to 1.62 Ma. Together with the terrace abandonment ages, the data imply 0.6 to 0.7 mm/yr uplift rates from 1.6 Ma to the present. The different post-Late Miocene and post-1.6 Ma uplift rates can imply increasing uplift rates through time, or multi-phased uplift with slow uplift or subsidence in between. Longitudinal profiles of rivers in the upper catchment of the Mut and Ermenek basins show no apparent lithologic or fault control on some knickpoints that occur at 1.2 to 1.5 km elevation, implying a transient response to a change in uplift rates. Projections of graded upper relict channel segments to the modern outlet, together with constraints from uplifted marine sediments, show that a slower incision/uplift rate of 0.1 to 0.2 mm/yr preceded the 0.7 mm/yr uplift rate. The river morphology and profile projections therefore reflect multi-phased uplift of the plateau margin, rather than steadily increasing uplift rates. Multi-phased uplift can be explained by lithospheric slab break-off and possibly also the arrival of the Eratosthenes Seamount at the collision zone south of Cyprus.
KW  - Central Anatolian plateau
KW  - uplift
KW  - fluvial strath terraces
KW  - cosmogenic nuclides
KW  - biostratigraphy
KW  - channel projection
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.003
SN  - 0012-821X
VL  - 317
SP  - 85
EP  - 95
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -