CUG-METU team and Menderes detachment fault in the background. From left to right; Dr. Deng Hao, Li Li, Jian'nan Meng, Bülent Tokay, Dr. Tim Kusky, Dr. Lu Wang, Dr. Erdin Bozkurt, Orhan Karaman, Ozan Sinoplu.

Two months of site visits were done in Western and Central Anatolia as a reconnaissance of this project. Planned studies included geochemical, geophysical, remote sensing and structural geology. However, it has been cancelled because of Covid-19 Pandemic.

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Although I was involved in many aspects of this project, my focus was on "Structural History of Çameli Basin in the context of Fethiye Burdur Shear Zone (FBFZ), SW Turkey". 

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Active tectonics of Anatolia and how its microplates move relative to each other is a matter of debate. Different models have attempted to explain these changes from compression in east to tension in the west and how it affects deformation of Anatolian microplates. A significant number of these models use major fault zones as microplate boundaries to accommodate stress change. One of these is Fethiye-Burdur Fault Zone (FBFZ), located above a Subduction Transform Edge Propagator (STEP) Fault formed by differential rollback of the Aegean and Cyprus slabs.

Fethiye-Burdur Fault Zone was thought to be the surficial expression of the STEP fault, therefore its nature was proposed to be sinistral transtensional by earlier studies. This view is both supported and challenged by existing data. My study focuses on one of these basins, the Çameli Basin, and aims to provide a systematic, well processed paleostress data to document structural evolution of the basin.

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