ESR dating of North Anatolian (Turkey) and Nojima (Japan) faults

Apatite fission track data from central Anatolian granitoids (Turkey): Constraints on Neo‐Tethyan closure

“…This implies that the onset of a strike‐slip or transtensional motion along the NAFZ must have followed the contractional tectonic regime very closely, because the closure of the Neotethys ocean and the collision between the EP and TAP occurred during the late Paleocene–early Eocene [ Şengör and Yılmaz , 1981; Boztuğ et al , 2004b]. The late Oligocene maximum at circa 26 Ma is consistent with fault displacements along the NAFZ determined by apatite fission track analyses and thermal modeling of rock samples collected from the Ganos segment of the NAFZ in SW Thrace [ Zattin et al , 2005] and electron spin resonance ages of quartz minerals from fault gauge samples close to the Mudurnu region [ Ulusoy , 2004] in the central part of the NAFZ.…”

Paramagnetic lattice defects in quartz for applications to ESR dating

“…9) where the obtained ages are consistent with the order of the ages inferred by the stratigraphy. Following works (e.g., Lee and Yang, 2007;Ulsoy, 2004) showed that this grain size criterion also works in fault gouges in South Korea, Turkey, and Japan.…”

ESR and 230Th/234U dating of speleothems from Aladağlar Mountain Range (AMR) in Turkey

“…The ESR dating method has been commonly used in geological or archeological chronology, paleoclimatology, and palaeogeography for the Quaternary period (Ikeya, 1978a(Ikeya, ,b, 2001Yokoyama et al, 1983;Grün, 1985;Grün et al, 1988;Arakawa and Hori, 1989;Ulusoy, 2000;Ikeya, 2001;Muhammad et al, 2002;Ulusoy, 2002Ulusoy, , 2003Ulusoy, , 2004aBlackwell, 2006) since a speleothem from Akiyoshi Cave in Japan was first dated by this method by Ikeya (1975). The method detects paramagnetic defects which are created in crystal structure by natural ionizing radiation (i.e.…”