The Amuq Valley Regional Project, 1995–1998

Yener, K. Aslıhan; Edens, Christopher; Harrison, Timothy P.; Verstraete, Jean‐Christophe; Wilkinson, T. J.

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“…14), indicating that the deposition of this sediment has accompanied localised subsidence, presumably reflecting in part the local sediment loading and in part the local component of active extension. Furthermore, maps of palaeoenvironments prior to the Amik Basin being drained in the mid twentieth century (published, for example, by Yener et al, 2000;Çalışkan, 2008;Eger, 2011; show lacustrine and wetland environments in roughly the same location as this leftward step in the faulting, confirming the proposed causal connection between surface environments and active crustal deformation.…”

Section: The Amik Basinsupporting

confidence: 52%

“…onward appears to have formed because human activity (agriculture and mining) destabilised hillslopes causing large fluxes of sediment into the basin, which raised the land surface near its margins, blocking the former outlet of the combined Karasu and Afrin rivers and inundating the basin interior. The effect of mining of the Hatay ophiolite is evident from chromium and nickel contamination of the sediments (e.g., Friedman et al, 2000), whereas the general magnitude of slope processes is evident from the depths of up to 6 m by which older features, including archaeological sites and the former land surface, have been buried (e.g., Yener et al, 2000;Casana, 2008). The former outlet of the combined Karasu and Afrin rivers was located in the hanging-wall of the Akçaova Fault (Fig.…”

Section: The Amik Basinmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition to geological investigations, the Amik Basin been the subject of archaeological studies (e.g., Wilkinson, 1997;Yener and Wilkinson, 1999;Yener et al, 2000;Wilkinson et al, 2001;Yener, 2005;Casana, 2008;Eger, 2011), which demonstrate significant human alteration of the environment in antiquity. Thus, although lakes had developed in this basin in the Early Holocene, the large 'Lake of Antioch' that existed from the first millennium B.C.…”

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The kinematics of central-southern Turkey and northwest Syria revisited

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Central-southern Turkey, NW Syria, and adjacent offshore areas in the NE Mediterranean region form the boundary zone between the Turkish, African and Arabian plates. A great deal of new information has emerged in recent years regarding senses and rates of active crustal deformation in this region, but this material has not hitherto been well integrated, so the interpretations of key localities by different teams remain contradictory. We have reviewed and synthesized this evidence, combining it with new investigations targeted at key areas of uncertainty. This work has led to the inference of previously unrecognized active faults and has clarified the roles of other structures within the framework of plate motions provided by GPS studies. Roughly one third of the relative motion between the Turkish and Arabian plates is accommodated on the Misis-Kyrenia Fault Zone, which links to the study region from the Kyrenia mountain range of northern Cyprus. Much of this motion passes NNE then eastward around the northern limit of the Amanos Mountains, as previously thought, but some of it splays northeastward to link into newly-recognised normal faulting within the Amanos Mountains. The remaining two thirds of the relative motion is accommodated along the Karasu Valley; some of this component steps leftward across the Amik Basin before passing southward onto the northern Dead Sea Fault Zone (DSFZ) but much of it continues southwestward, past the city of Antakya, then into offshore structures, ultimately linking Central-southern Turkey and northwest Syria; Page 2; 30/12/2013 to the subduction zone bounding the Turkish and African plates to the southwest of Cyprus.However, some of this offshore motion continues southward, west of the Syrian coast, before linking onshore into the southern DSFZ; this component of the relative motion is indeed the main reason why the slip rate on the northern DSFZ, measured geodetically, is so much lower than that on its southern counterpart. In some parts of this region, notably in the Karasu Valley, it is now clear how the expected relative plate motion has been accommodated on active faults during much of the Quaternary: rather than constant slip rates on individual faults, quite complex changes in the partitioning of this motion on timescales of hundreds of thousands of years are indicated. However, in other parts of the region it remains unclear whether additional major active faults remain unrecognised or whether significant relative motions are accommodated by distributed deformation or on the many smaller-scale structures present. Highlights

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“…This process of marsh and lake development is evident in the form of the accumulation of lacustrine deposits over archaeological sites and palaeosols of former fields (Wilkinson 2010: fi. 9.8;Yener et al 2000: fig. 4).…”

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Regional power and local ecologies: Accumulated population trends and human impacts in the northern Fertile Crescent

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Gibbons

Wilkinson

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Quaternary International

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“…123 The earlymiddle second millennium and Late Roman site of Karatepe (AS 86) was constructed of mud bricks containing marshy soils. 124 In the Neo Assyrian period, reliefs from the Balawat bronze gates in Mesopotamia in the kingdom of Muqish (Amuq) illustrated settlements surrounded by a limited extent of water (like a moat), suggesting that the inhabitants may have lived on islands.…”

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The Swamps of Home: Marsh Formation and Settlement in the Early Medieval Near East

Eger

2011

Journal of Near Eastern Studies

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The Amuq Valley Regional Project, 1995–1998

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The kinematics of central-southern Turkey and northwest Syria revisited

The kinematics of central-southern Turkey and northwest Syria revisited

Regional power and local ecologies: Accumulated population trends and human impacts in the northern Fertile Crescent

The Swamps of Home: Marsh Formation and Settlement in the Early Medieval Near East

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