The Quaternary landforms of the Büyük Menderes Graben System: the southern Menderes Massif, western Anatolia, Turkey

Emrah Özpolat; Cengiz Yıldırım; Tolga Görüm

doi:10.1080/17445647.2020.1764874

The Quaternary landforms of the Büyük Menderes Graben System: the southern Menderes Massif, western Anatolia, Turkey

Emrah Özpolat^*, Cengiz Yıldırım, Tolga Görüm

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Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences

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Abstract

We present the first detailed Quaternary landform map of the Büyük Menderes Graben System, located in western Turkey which is one of the most active extensional domains in the world. The main map was produced with a combination of TanDEM-X (12.5 m resolution), Red Relief Image Map, unmanned aerial vehicle, Google Earth images, and multiple fieldworks. The main map is presented at a scale of 1:160,000 although landforms were mapped at a scale of 1:15,000. The ten Quaternary landforms were defined considering their surface morphology and depositional environment. The alluvial fans, river terraces, and floodplains are the most common landforms. The spatial pattern of the alluvial fans and river terraces showed the variable rates of tectonics and surface processes along the strike of the graben system. The distribution of the meander cut-offs and paleo-shorelines imply that Büyük Menderes Graben System is vulnerable to geohazards like flash-flood sedimentation and flood events.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	405-419
Number of pages	15
Journal	Journal of Maps
Volume	16
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2020.1764874
Publication status	Published - 9 Dec 2020

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© 2020, © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of Journal of Maps.

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This paper is a part of the first author's Ph.D. thesis. The first author thanks The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), International Research Fellowship Programme for Ph.D. students (BİDEB 2214-A). We also thank Associate Editor J. Knight and reviewers M. Stokes, M. Shand, and M. Gul for their constructive comments that significantly improved the manuscript. This study was funded by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey [grant number 116Y077] and Istanbul Technical University [grant number TDK-2019-41838]. This paper is a part of the first author's Ph.D. thesis. The first author thanks The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), International Research Fellowship Programme for Ph.D. students (BİDEB 2214-A). We also thank Associate Editor J. Knight and reviewers M. Stokes, M. Shand, and M. Gul for their constructive comments that significantly improved the manuscript.

Funders	Funder number
Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştirma Kurumu	BİDEB 2214-A
Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi	TDK-2019-41838

Keywords

alluvial fan
Extensional landscape
Menderes Massif
Red Relief Image Map
river terrace
western Anatolia

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