Celâl Şengör

Ali Mehmet Celâl Şengör
Şengör, while explaining the short arms of Tyrannosaurus rex (at the back) in Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris (2005).
Born	(1955-03-24) 24 March 1955 İstanbul, Turkey
Nationality	Turkish
Occupation	Professor of Geology
Years active	1974 -
Known for	Tectonics of Turkey and Asia
Awards	Bigsby Medal (1999) Gustav-Steinmann-Medaille (2010)

Ali Mehmet Celâl Şengör (born March 24, 1955) is a Turkish geologist. He is currently on the faculty at Istanbul Technical University, Department of Geological Engineering.^[1] After graduating from Robert College, he received his PhD from the State University of New York, Albany in 1982. He also writes weekly popular science columns in the center-left daily Cumhuriyet.^[2] He is married and has one child named Asım Şengör.

Professor Şengör is a (foreign) member of The American Philosophical Society, The United States National Academy of Sciences and The Russian Academy of Sciences. Actually, he is the second Turkish prominent professor who is elected as a member by the Russian Academy of Sciences after Professor ordinarius Mehmet Fuat Köprülü.

Universities

• State University of New York at Albany, USA – MS, PhD
• Collège de France, France – adjunct professor
• University of Oxford, England – adjunct professor
• California Institute of Technology, USA – adjunct professor
• Lodron-Paris University of Salzburg, Austria – adjunct professor
• Istanbul Technical University – current

Professional experience

• Autumn 1974 Undergraduate assistant, University of Houston, Geology Department
• 1975-1976 Research assistant in tectonics and regional geology, University of Houston,Geology Department
• April–May 1980 Maître de Conference at the Université de Paris-Sud, Laboratoire de Géologie Historique, Orsay, France
• 1981-1986 Lecturer, İstanbul Technical University, Department of Geology, General Geology Section.
• 1986-1992 Reader, İstanbul Technical University, Department of Geology, General Geology Section.
• 1992–present Professor of Geology, İstanbul Technical University, Department of Geology, General Geology Section
• 1983-1995 Associate Editor, Tectonics
• 1983-1990 Editorial Advisory Board Member, Journal of Structural Geology.
• 1983–present Editorial Advisory Board Member, Earth Evolution Sciences
• 1984-1998 Editorial Board Member, Tectonophysics
• 1985-1977 Editorial Advisory Board Member, Bulletin of the İstanbul Technical University (converted to ARI in 1977)
• 1987-1995 Editorial Board Member, Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae
• 1988–present Editorial Board Member Bulletin of the Turkish Association of Petroleum Geologists.
• 1989-1995 Associate Editor, Geological Society of American Bulletin.
• 1990–present Editorial Board Member, Geologica Balcanica
• 1992–present Editorial Board Member, Türk Yerbilimleri Dergisi (Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences)
• 1984–present International Lithosphere Project, WG 2 Member
• 1987-1991 International Lithosphere Project, WG 2, Chairman of Eastern Tethys PanelDec.1983,
• 1984 May -1985 July Visiting Scientist, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas
• 1984-1986 Ocean Drilling Program, national representative for Turkey
• 1985-1987 Member of NATO Scientific Affairs Division Special Programme Panel on Global Transport Mechanisms in the Geo-Sciences.
• 1986-1990 European Science Foundation Consortium for Ocean Drilling Program Science Committee (ESCOM) member.
• 1986-1987 and 1990–present TÜBİTAK Basic Research Institute, Department of Earth Sciences (Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey); Advisor (resigned on 8 November 1992, upon the resignation of the TÜBİTAK president)
• 1989 Visiting Research Fellow of the Royal Society of London in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
• 1990-1991 Committee for the Training of Young Scientists, The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), member.
• 1991-1992 Committee for Earth Sciences, The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK), member (resigned, 8 November 1992, upon the resignation of the President of the TÜBİTAK)
• 1991-1994 The Council of the Geologische Vereinigung (Mitglied des Beirates): member, elected November 1990 (upon completion of term in 1994, elected Vice-President)
• 1992 Advisor to the President, The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) (resigned on 8 November 1992 upon the resignation of the President)
• 1992-1994 Yayın Kurulu Üyesi (Editorial Board Member), Bilim Tarihi (History of Science)
• 1993–present Editorial Board Member, Earth Sciences History
• 1993-1999 Member of the Council of the European Union of Geosciences
• 1993-1994 Member of the Council of the Turkish Academy of Sciences
• 1993-1994 Member of the Science Council (=executive council) of The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK)
• 1994–present Vice President of the Geologische Vereinigung (Stellvertretender Vorsitzender): elected 17 February 1994
• 1994–present Member of the Editorial Board of the Geologische Rundschau
• 1994–present Specially invited Board Member, Tethyan Geology (published in Chinese in Chengdu, PRC)
• 1995–present Member of the Standing Committee for Life and Environmental Sciences (LESCO) of the European Science Foundation (ESF).
• 1995–present Member of the Editorial Board of the International Geology Review
• 1996 - Member, Science Centre Foundation, İstanbul
• 1996- Member, Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı (Economic and Social History Foundation of Turkey)
• 1997– Editor, ARI Bulletin of the Technical University of Istanbul
• 1997- Member of the Editorial Board of the Asian Journal of Earth Sciences
• 1998- Head of the Department of Solid Earth Sciences, Eurasian Institute of Earth Sciences, İstanbul Technical University
• 1998- Advisor to the Minister of State responsible for TÜBİTAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), MTA (General Directorate of Mineral Research and Exploration of Turkey), and Etibank.
• 1999- Member of the Young Scientist Award Committee of the European Union of Geosciences
• 1999- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Terra
• April 2001-March 2002 Gordon W. Moore Distinguished Scholar, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
• November 2001-November 2002 Chairman of the History of Geology Division of the Geological Society of America
• 2005–present President of the Earth Sciences Society of Turkey

Miscellaneous experience in scholarly matters

• 1978 Co-reviser (for"Geosynclines and Tectonics" section) for the American Geological Institute Glossary of Geology, 2nd edition.
• 1981 Consultative Committee Member, International Symposium on Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau, Beijing, China
• 1982 Editorial Advisory board Member of the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Earthquake Prediction in the North Anatolian Fault Zone, İstanbul, March 31-April 5, 1980.
• 1984 International Advisory Panel Member for Tübitak Natural History Museum and Science and Technology Museum (9–12 December 1984).
• 1985 Co-convener of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on the Tectonic Evolution of the Tethyan Regions, Istanbul, September 28-October 2, 1985.
• 1989 Co-convener of Symposium "Tethyan tectonostratigraphic terrane models tested". EUGV, 20–23 March 1989, Strasbourg
• 1989 Co-convener of symposium B9: "Stratigraphy and Evolution of the Tethyan Basins" International Geological Congress, Washington, D.C.
• 1989 Co-organizer of the Royal Society of London Discussion Meeting on' Allochthonous Terranes', 8–9 November 1989, London.
• 1990 Co-organizer of the Eduard-SUESS-Symposium on the Development of Modern Geology and Austrian-Turkish relationships, 10 and 21 April 1990, İstanbul.
• 1991 Co-convener of Symposium "Subduction processes, strike-slip faulting and continental collision in the Tethyan orogenic assembly" EUG, 24–28 March, Strasbourg.
• 1992 Co-convener of Symposium I-3-24 "Tectonic evolution of Tethyan and adjacent areas" 29th Int. Geol. Congr., Kyoto, Japan, 28 August 1992
• 1996 Co-convener of two symposia in the 30th Int. Geol. Congress, Beijing, China, but was unable to attend.
• 1999 Co-convener of Symposium D06, "Inter-Relations between Palaeo-Tethys and Neotethys in Europe and Asia" EUG 10, 28 March-1 April, Strasbourg, pp. 189 ff.)
• 2002 Member of Wissenschaftliches Kommitee of Pangeo I, Austria, Erdwissenschaften in Österreich/Earth Sciences in Austria, 28. — 30. 6. 2002, Salzburg.
• 2009 Chairman of the 62nd Geological Kurultai [=Congress] of Turkey, 13–17 April, Ankara, Turkey

Membership in scientific societies

• Türkiye Jeomorfologlar Derneği (Turkish Geomorphological Association)
• Geologische Vereinigung
• Geological Society of America (Fellow since 1988)
• American Geophysical Union
• Geological Society of Houston (1976 - one year's honorary membership)
• Schweizerische Geologische Gesellschaft
• Geological Society of London (Fellow)
• Société Géologique de France(Associée étranger, elected 1994)
• Österreichische Geologische Gesellshaft (Honorary Member since 1990)
• Geological Society of Malaysia.

Distinguished lectures

• 'The Tectonics of Asia': James Wright Memorial Lecture, Edinburgh Geological Society, 30 March 1988, Edinburgh.
• 'Evolution of the Tethys': Annual Lecture of the Sylvester-Bradley Geological Society, 16 February 1990, Leicester.
• ‘Turkic-type orogeny in the Altaids: Implications for the evolution of continental crust’: The 34th Bennett Lecture, Geology Department, Leicester University, 8 March 1993
• 'Eduard Suess "Die Tethys" Vor 100 Jahren und Heute': Festvortrag anläßlich der 100 jährigen Geschichte des Begriffs am 18. November 1993 ('Eduard Suess "The Tethys" 100 years ago and today': Celebration lecture on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the "Tethys" concept, University of Vienna).
• İhsan Ketin: Hayatı ve Eserleri (İhsan Ketin: His Life and Work): The First Ketin Lecture, İstanbul Technical University, İstanbul, 16 December 1996
• 'Tectonics of the Altaids in Asia, and the evolution of the continental crust' and 'Is the present the key to the past or is the past the key to the present: An ongoing debate in geology as a general problem in historical sciences': Lewis G. Weeks Lectures, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Geology and Geophysics, 4 and 5 October 2001.
• American Association of Petroleum Geologists Distinguished Lecturer, 9 to 19 March 2004, Eastern Europe (Budapest, Bratislava, Brno, Prag, Warsaw, Bucharest, Kiev)
• 'The Geology of the Middle East': The 6th Annual Robert E. Sheriff Dinner Lecture, University of Houston Geoscience Department and the University of Houston Geoscience Alumni Association, 15 November 2004.

Honours and awards

• Best Student Paper Award, Geological Society of America, South-Central Section, 1976.
• Outstanding Student Award, Geological Society of Houston, 1976.
• Sigma Gamma Epsilon (National Honour Society in Earth Sciences, USA).
• Presidential University Fellowship, State University of New York at Albany 1978-1981.
• President's Award, The Geological Society of London, 1984.
• Bilim Ödülü (Science Award) Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknik Araştırma Kurumu (Tübitak), 1986 (the youngest recipient to date).
• Docteur honoris causa, Université de Neuchâtel, 1988.
• Korrespondent der Geologischen Bundesanstalt (Wien), named, 23 June 1989, on the occasion of the 140th Anniversary of the Geologische Bundesanstalt (Austrian Geological Survey).
• Member of the Academia Europaea. Elected 1990 (the first Turkish member, and the youngest member of the Academy at the time of election).
• Ehrenmitglied (Honorary Member) der Österreichischen Geologischen Gesellschaft (Austrian Geological Society). Elected 1990.
• Kültür Bakanlığı Bilgi Çağı Ödülü (Ministry of Culture, Era of Knowledge Prize), 1991.
• Plaque given by the Sosyaldemokrat Halkçı Parti (Socialdemocrat People’s Party) in recognition of "contribution to science for the development and advancement of mankind," 7 February 1992
• One of 10 founding members of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (Türkiye Bilimler Akademisi) appointed by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey, 12 September 1993 (youngest founding member).
• Membre Associé de la Société géologique de France (elected 10 January 1994)
• Honorary Fellow of the Geological Society of America (elected 14 May 1994).
• Foreign Fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences of the Russian Federation (Akademiya Estestvennikh Nauk), elected 28 April 1994.
• The Rammal Medal of the Société Française de Physique et la Fondation de l'École Normale Supérieure, for 1994.
• Plaque given by the Director on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary Celebrations of the Maden Tetkik ve Arama Genel Müdürlüğü (Turkish Mineral Research and Exploration Directorate: Turkish Geological Survey) in recognition of "contributions to the science of geology," 26 June 1995.
• Prix Lutaud—Grand Prix de l'Academie des Sciences dans le domaine des Sciences de la Terre (Lutaud Prize— é): decided on 24 March 1997, presented on 1 December 1997.
• Ortadoğu Teknik Üniversitesi Prof. Dr. Mustafa N. Parlar Eğitim ve Araştırma Vakfı Bilim, Hizmet ve Onur Ödülü (Middle East Technical University, The Prof. Dr. Mustafa N. Parlar Educational and Research Foundation, Science, Service and Honour Award), 19 December 1997.
• Medaille du Collège de France, received on 28 May 1998, for giving a course of lectures in the Collège.
• The Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society of London: decided by the Council of the Society on 2 December 1998, presented on 22 April 1999 (citation and acceptance speech in Geoscientist, v. 9, no. 6, p. 10, citation, and pp. 10–11, acceptance).
• Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Elected 2000.
• Melvin Jones Fellow, Lions Club International Foundation, 2001
• Foreign Associate of the American Philosophical Society. Elected 24 April 2004.
• Medaille du Collège de France, received on 20 March 2005, for occupying the Chaire internationale of the Collège for the academic year of 2004-2005.
• Attaché honoraire du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris for three years (2006-2009).
• Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2006)
• Çağdaş Eğitim Kooperatifi Ödülü (Award given by Cooperative for Modern Education) (3 March 2008)
• Honorary Doctor of Science Degree, University of Chicago, conferred during the 500th Convocation on 9 October 2009
• The Steinmann Medaille of the Geologische Vereinigung for 2010.

Fossils named after Şengör

• Sengoerina argandi ALTINER, 1999: Altıner, D., 1999, Sengoerina argandi, n. gen., n. sp., and its position in the evolution of Late Permian biseriamminid foraminifers: Micropaleontology, v. 45, pp. 215–22.^[3]
• Dicapnuchosphaera sengori TEKİN, 1999: Tekin, U. K., 1999, Biostratigraphy and Systematics of Late Middle to Late Triassic Radiolarians from the Taurus Mountains and Ankara Region, Turkey: Geologisch-Paläontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck, Sonderband 5, pp. 296 (see p. 75 and plate 5, figs. 3-6).^[4]
• Sengoerichthys ottoman JANVIER, CLÉMENT and CLOUTIER, 2007: Janvier, P., Clément, G. and Cloutier, R., 2007, A primitive megalichthyid fish (Sarcopterygii, Tetrapodomorpha) from the Upper Devonian of Turkey and its biogeographical implications: Geodiversitas, v. 29, pp. 249–268.^[5]

Non-academic interests

Classical Ottoman, Baroque, and Classical Music, book collecting, aviation, travel, mythology, history and mythology of Central Asia, history of the Ottoman Empire, opera, spelunking.

Languages

Turkish, English, German, French.

Publications

Books

• 1982 (with A. Miyashiro and K. Aki) Orogeny: J. Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 242 pp.^[6]
• 1984 (with A. Miyashiro and K. Aki) Orogenez: Mir Publishers, Moscow, 286 p. (in Russian)
• 1985 (with A. Miyashiro and K. Aki) Orogenese: Franz Deuticke, Wien, 236 p. (in German)
• 1986 (with A. Miyashiro and K. Aki) Mountain-building, 295 p. (in Chinese)
• 1984 The Cimmeride Orogenic System and the Tectonics of Eurasia: Geoloical Society of America Special Paper 195, xi+82 pp.^[7]
• 1989 (Editor). Tectonic Evolution of the Tethyan Region: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.^[8]
• 1990 (Co-editor with J.F. Dewey, Ian G. Gass, G.B. Curry, and N.B.W. Harris) Allochthonous Terranes: Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, v. 331, pp. 455–647.^[9]
• 1992 Plate Tectonics and Orogeny - A Tethyan Perspective: Fu Dan University Press, Shanghai, 4 +2 + 182 pp. (in Chinese; this book is a combined translation of items 88 and 97 in the Papers section plus a preface added on 6 July 1991)^[10]
• 1998 (with N. Görür, A. Okay, N. Özgül, O. Tüysüz, M. Sakınç, R. Akkök, E., Yiğitbaş, T. Genç, S. Örçen, T. Ercan, B. Akyürek, F. Şaroğlu) Türkiye'nin Triyas-Miyosen Paleocoğrafya Atlası, editör: Naci Görür (Triassic to Miocene Palaeogeographic Atlas of Turkey, Naci Görür, editor): İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Maden Fakültesi, Jeoloji Mühendisliği Bölümü, Genel Jeoloji Anabilim Dalı TÜBİTAK—Global Tektonik Araştırma Ünitesi ve Maden Tetkik ve Arama Genel Müdürlüğü, Jeoloji Etütleri Dairesi, Ankara, [IV]+41pp.+30 pp. of maps and sections, oblong elephant folio.^[11]
• 2001 Is the Present the Key to the Past or the Past the Key to the Present? James Hutton and Adam Smith versus Abraham Gottlob Werner and Karl Marx in Interpreting History: Geological Society of America Special Paper 355, x+51 pp.^[12]
• 2001 (with X. Le Pichon and E. Demirbağ) Marine Atlas of the Sea of Marmara (Turkey) IFREMER, Paris, 13 pp. of Explanatory text, 11 foldout maps.^[13]
• 2003 The Large Wavelength Deformations of the Lithosphere: Materials for a history of the evolution of thought from the earliest times to plate tectonics: Geological Society of America Memoir 196, xvii+347 pp.+ 3 folded plates in pocket^[14]
• 2004 Yaşamın Evrimi Fikrinin Darwin Dönemi Sonuna Kadarki Tarihi (History of the Idea of the Evolution of Life to the End of Darwin’s Period): İTÜ Yayınevi, İstanbul, 187 pp.^[15]
• 2005 Une Autre Histoire de la Tectonique: Leçons Inaugurales du Collège de France, Fayard, Paris, 79 pp.^[16]
• 2006 99 Sayfada İstanbul Depremi (The İstanbul Earthquake in 99 Pages): İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, İstanbul, 99 pp.^[17]
• 2009 (with S. Atayman) The Permian Extinction and the Tethys: An Exercise in Global Geology: Geological Society of America Special Paper 448, x+96 pp.^[18]
• 2009 Globale Geologie und ihr Einfluss auf das Denken von Eduard Suess Der Katastrophismus Uniformitarianismus-Streit: Scripta Geo-Historica, v. 2, 181 pp.^[19]
• 2009 (with B. A. Natal’in) Rifti Mira (uchebno-spavochnoye posobie): Geokart, Moskva, 187 pp. (Russian translation of item 166 below plus a preface)

Papers

This list does not include book reviews in scholarly journals and small notices in discussion sessions. 1975

• Outlines of the Turkish Karst: Boğaziçi Univ. Speleol. Soc. Pub., No.1, İstanbul, 25 pp. 1a. See 1986.^[20]

1976

• Collision of irregular continental margins: implications for foreland deformation of Alpine type orogens: Geology, v. 4, p. 779-782.^[21]

1977

• New historical data on crustal subduction: Jour. Geol., v. 85, p. 631-634. h^[22]
• Orojenik kuşaklarda tektonik taşınma (Tectonic transport in orogenic belts) Yeryuvarı ve İnsan,

v. 2, p. 23-35 (in Turkish).

1978

• (with K. Burke and J.F. Dewey) Rifts at high angles to orogenic belts: tests for their origin and the upper Rhine Graben as an example: Am. Jour. Sci., v. 278, p. 24-40.^[23]
• (with K. Burke and P.J. Fox) Buoyant ocean floor and the evolution of the Caribbean: Jour. Geophys. Res., v. 83, p. 3949-3954.
• (with K. Burke) Relative timing of rifting and volcanism on Earth and its tectonic implications: Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 5, p. 419-421.^[24]
• Über die angebliche primäre Vertikaltektonik im Ägäisraum: N. Jb. Geol. Paläont., Mh., 11, p. 698-703.
• (with K. Burke, L. Delano, J.F. Dewey, A. Edelstein, W.S.F. Kidd, K.D. Nelson, and J. Stroup) Rifts and sutures of the World: Report to Geophysics Branch, ESA Div., NASA / GSFC, Greenbelt, MD.

1979

• (with J.F. Dewey) Aegean and surrounding regions: complex multiplate and continuum tectonics in a convergent zone: Geol. Soc. America Bull., Part I, v. 90, p. 84-92.^[25]
• The North Anatolian Transform Fault: its age, offset and tectonic significance: Jour. Geol. Soc. London, v. 136, p. 269-282.^[26]
• (with W.S.F. Kidd) The post-collisional tectonics of the Turkish-Iranian Plateau and a comparison with Tibet: Tectonophysics, v. 55, p. 361-376.
• Classical Theories of Orogenesis: in A. Miyashiro and K. Aki, edts., Mobile Earth, III, Orogeny (v. 12 of the Iwanami Shoten Earth Science Series), Iwanami Shoten Publishers, Tokyo, p. 1-34 (in Japanese)
• (with K. Burke) Review of plate tectonics: Reviews of Geophys, and Space Phys., v. 17, p. 1081- 1090.^[27]
• Mid-Mesozoic closure of Permo-Triassic Tethys and its implications: Nature, v. 279, p. 590-593.^[28]
• (with K. Burke) Comments on "Why do I not accept plate tectonics?" by V.V. Beloussov: EOS, v. 60, p. 207-210.^[29]
• (with G.W. White and J.F. Dewey) Tectonic evolution of the Bitlis Suture, southeastern Turkey: implications for the tectonics of the eastern Mediterranean: Rapp. Comm. int. Mer. Médit., v. 25/26, p. 95-97.
• On some 50% extension in the Aegean area and its implication for orogenic reconstructions in the Taurides: Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Médit., v. 25/26, p. 41-42.

1980

• Türkiye'nin Neotektoniğinin Esasları (Principles of the Neotectonics of Turkey): Türk. Jeol. Kur., Konf. Serisi, 2, 40 pp. (in Turkish).^[30]
• (with Y. Yılmaz and İ. Ketin) Remnants of a pre-late Jurassic ocean in northern Turkey: fragments of Permo-Triassic Paleo-Tethys? Geol. Soc. America Bull., Part I, v. 91, p. 599-609.^[31]
• (with J. Grippi and K. Burke) Neogene structures in Jamaica and the tectonic style of the northern Caribbean plate boundary zone: Jour. Geol., v. 88, p. 375-386.^[32]
• (with O. Monod) Océans sialiques et collisions continentales: C.R. h´bd., Acad. Sci. Paris, v. 290, p. 375-386.

1981

• (with Y. Yılmaz) Tethyan evolution of Turkey: a plate tectonic approach: Tectonophysics, v. 75, p. 181-241.^[33]
• The evolution of Palaeo-Tethys in the Tibetan segment of the Alpides: in Geological and Ecological Studies of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, v. 1, p. 51-56, Science Press, Beijing.
• (with K. Burke, J.F. Dewey, and W.S.F. Kidd) Continental collisions analogous to that forming the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau: in Geological and Ecological Studies of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau; v. 1, p. 743-746, Science Press, Beijing.
• Symposium on Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau - Beijing (Peking), China: EOS, v. 62, p. 602-603.
• The geological exploration of Tibet: Nature, v. 294, p. 403-404.^[34]
• (with R.F. Livaccari and K. Burke) Was the Laramide orogeny related to subduction of an oceanic plateau? Nature, v. 289, p. 276-278.^[35]
• The main theories of orogeny - a historical review: İstanbul Yerbilimleri, v. 1, p. 1-26.
• (with K. Burke, W.S.F. Kidd, D.L. Turcotte, J.F. Dewey, P.J. Mouginis-Mark, E.M. Parmentier, and P. Tapponnier) Tectonics of basaltic volcanism: in Basaltic Volcanism on the Terrestrial Planets, p. 830-898, Pergamon Press Inc., New York.

1982

• A note on a late revision of the theory of embryotectonics by Argand himself: Eclog. Geol. Helvet., v. 75, p. 177-188.
• Eduard Suess' relations to the pre-1950 schools of thought in global tectonics: Geol. Rundsch., v. 71, p. 381-420.
• (with K. Burke and J.F. Dewey) Tectonics of the North Anatolian transform fault: in A.M. Işıkara and A. Vogel, edts., Multidisciplinary Approach to Earthquake Prediction, p. 3-22, Friedr. Vieweg Sohn, Braunschweig/Wiesbaden.
• (with N. Canıtez) The North Anatolian Fault: in Alpine-Mediterranean Geodynamics, p. 205- 216, Geodynamics Series, v. 7.
• (with Y. Yılmaz and İ. Ketin) Remnants of a pre-late Jurassic ocean in northern Turkey: fragments of Permo-Triassic Paleo-Tethys? Reply: Geol. Soc. America Bull., v. 93, p. 932-936.
• Ege'nin neotektonik evrimini yöneten etkenler (Factors governing the neotectonic evolution of the Aegean) in O. Erol and V. Oygür, edts., Batı Anadolu'nun Genç Tektoniği ve Volkanizması Paneli, p. 59-71, Türk. Jeol. Kur., Ankara (in Turkish)
• Workshop/Discussion meeting at Veszprem, Hungary on Evolution of Extensional Basins within Regions of Compression, with Emphasis on the Intra-Carpathians: Earth Evolution Sciences, v. 3, p. 271-273.
• "Babay Himalaya" Augusto Gansser 71 yaşında ("Babay Himalaya" Augusto Gansser is 71 years old): Yeryuvarı ve İnsan, v. 7, p. 12-16 (in Turkish)

1983

• (with S. Büyükaşıkoğlu and N. Canıtez) Neotectonics of the Pontides: implications for 'incompatible' structures along the North Anatolian fault: Jour. Struct. Geol., v. 5, p. 211-216.
• Gondwana and "Gondwanaland": A discussion: Geol. Rundsch., v. 72, p. 397-400.
• (with N. Görür, R. Akkök, and Y. Yılmaz) Pontidlerde Neo-Tetis'in açılmasına ilişkin sedimentolojik veriler (Sedimentological evidence for the opening of the northern branch of Neo-Tethys in the Pontides): Türk. Jeol. Kur. Bült., v. 26, p. 11-20 (in Turkish)
• (with Y. Yılmaz) Türkiye'de Tetis'in evrimi: Levha Tektoniği Açısından Bir Yaklaşım (Evolution of Tethys in Turkey: A Plate Tectonics Approach): Türk. Jeol. Kur., Yerbilimleri Özel Dizisi, 1, 75 pp. (in Turkish).
• Tanım (Definition): in N. Canıtez edt., Levha Tektoniği, p. 1-7, İTÜ Maden Fakültesi, Ofset Baskı Atölyesi, İstanbul (in Turkish).
• Levha Tektoniğinin dünü, bugünü, yarını (Past, present and future of plate tectonics): in N. Canıtez, edt., Levha Tektoniği, p. 33-50, İTÜ Maden Fakültesi, Ofset Baskı Atölyesi, İstanbul (in Turkish).
• Yayılma merkezleri - Genel (Spreading centres, general: in N. Canıtez, edt., Levha Tektoniği, p. 369-382, İTÜ Maden Fakültesi, Ofset Baskı Atölyesi, İstanbul (in Turkish).
• Kıt'asal gerilme alanları - Genel (Regions of extension within continents - general) : in N. Canıtez, edt., Levha Tektoniği, p. 461-478, İTÜ Maden Fakültesi, Ofset Baskı Atölyesi, İstanbul(in Turkish).
• Transform faylar - Genel (Transform faults - general): in N. Canıtez, edt., Levha Tektoniği, p. 547-569, İTÜ Maden Fakültesi, Ofset Baskı Atölyesi, İstanbul (in Turkish)
• Dalma-batma bölgeleri - genel(Subduction zones - general): in N. Canıtez, edt., Levha Tektoniği, p. 575-576, İTÜ Maden Fakültesi, Ofset Baskı Atölyesi, İstanbul (in Turkish).
• Kıt'a-kıt'a çarpışma bölgeleri - Genel (Continental collision zones - general): in N. Canıtez, edt., Levha Tektoniği, p. 649, İTÜ Maden Fakültesi, Ofset Baskı Atölyesi, İstanbul (in Turkish).
• Sıcak noktalar ve ilişkin tektonizma (Hot spots and related tectonism: in N. Canıtez, edt., Levha Tektoniği, p. 729-751, İTÜ Maden Fakültesi, Ofset Baskı Atölyesi, İstanbul (in Turkish)

1984

• (with Y. Yılmaz and O. Sungurlu) Tectonics of the Mediterranean Cimmerides: nature and evolution of the western termination of Palaeo-Tethys: in J.E. Dixon and A.H.F. Robertson, edts., Geological Evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Pub., 17, p. 77-112.
• (with N. Görür, F.Y. Oktay and İ. Seymen) Palaeotectonic evolution of the Tuzgölü basin complex, central Turkey: sedimentary record of a Neo-Tethyan closure: in J.E. Dixon and A.H.F. Robertson, edts., Geological Evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Pub, 17, p. 467-482.
• (with M. Satır and R. Akkök) Timing of tectonic events in the Menderes Massif, Western Turkey: implications for tectonic evolution and evidence for Pan-African basement in Turkey: Tectonics, v. 3, p. 693-707.
• (with K.J. Hsü) The Cimmerides of Eastern Asia: History of the eastern end of Palaeo-Tethys: Mém. Soc. Géol.France, N.S., 1984, no. 147, p. 139-167.

1985

• Türkiye'nin tektonik tarihinin yapısal sınıflaması (Structural classification of the tectonic history of Turkey): Ketin Simpozyumu Kitabı, Türkiye Jeoloji Kurumu, p. 37-61 (in Turkish).
• İhsan Ketin: Hayatı ve Eserleri (İhsan Ketin: His life and work): Ketin Simpozyumu Kitabı, Türkiye Jeoloji Kurumu, p. 5-18 (in Turkish)
• The Story of Tethys: How many wives did Okeanos have? Episodes, v. 8, no. 1, p. 3-12.
• Die Alpiden und die Kimmeriden: Die verdoppelte Geschichte der Tethys: Geol. Rundsch., v. 74, p. 181-213.
• East Asian tectonic collage: Nature, v. 318, p. 16-17.
• (with Y. Yılmaz) Paleo-Tethyan ophiolites in northern Turkey: Petrology and tectonic setting: Ofioliti, v. 10, p. 485-504.
• (with N. Görür and F. Şaroğlu) Strike-slip faulting and related basin formation in zones of tectonic escape: Turkey as a case study: in Biddle, K.T. and Christie-Blick, N., edts, Strike-slip Deformation, Basin Formation, and Sedimentation, Soc. Econ. Paleont. Min. Spec. Pub. 37 (in honor of J.C. Crowell), p. 227-264.
• (with K. Burke and J.F. Dewey) Rifts at high angles to orogenic belts: tests for their origin and the upper Rhine Graben as an example: Am. Jour. Sci. v. 278 (1978), p. 24-40: reprinted in Quennell, A.M., edt., Continental Rifts, Benchmark Papers in Geology, v. 90, p. 59-75, Stroudsbourg, Pennsylvania.
• (with K. Burke) Relative timing of rifting and volcanism on Earth and its tectonic implications: Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 5, p. 419-421: reprinted in Quennell, A.M., edt., Continental Rifts, Benchmark Papers in Geology, v. 90, p. 12-14, Stroudsbourg, Pennsylvania.

1986

• (with K. Burke) Tectonic escape in the evolution of the continental crust: in Barazangi, M., edt., Reflection Seismology: The Continental Crust. Geodynamics Series, v. 14, American Geophysical Union, Washington, D.C., p. 41-53.
• (with J.F. Dewey, M.R. Hempton, W.S.F. Kidd, and F. Şaroğlu) Shortening of continental lithosphere: the neotectonics of Eastern Anatolia - a young collision zone: in Coward, M.P. and Ries, A.C., edts., Collision Tectonics, Geol. Soc. London Spec. Pub. 19 (R.M. Shackleton volume), p. 3-36.
• The dual nature of the Alpine-Himalayan System: Progress, problems, and prospects: Tectonophysics, v. 127, p. 177-195.
• Die Alpiden und die Kimmeriden: die verdoppelte Geschichte der Tethys: Reply: Geol. Rundsch., v. 75, p. 501-510.
• (with J.F. Dewey) Post-Oligocene tectonic evolution of the Aegean and neighbouring regions: relations to the North Anatolian Transform Fault: in İzdar, E. and Nakoman, E., edts., Sixth Colloquium on Geology of the Aegean Region. PİRİ REİS Int. Cont. Ser. Pub. 2, 639-646.
• Tetis'in öyküsü: Okeanos'un kaç karısı vardır? Yeryuvarı ve İnsan, v. 11, p. 7-17 (translated by Altan Cin).
• The History of Tethys. On Tethyan and Neo-Tethyan Ocean (in Chinese). Hai Yang Di Zhi Yi Cong (Marine Geology Translation Collection), v. 32, no. 6, p. 9-17 (translated by Yang Yeujun and Jin Xinchun).
• Outlines of the Turkish Karst: Boğaziçi University Speieological Society Publications no. 1, 2nd Edition, 25 pp.

1987

• Tectonic subdivisions and evolution of Asia: Bull. Tech. Univ., İstanbul, v. 40 (Ratip Berker Volume), p. 355-435.
• Tectonics of the Tethysides: Orogenic collage development in a collisional setting: Ann. Rev. Earth Planet Sci., v. 15, p. 213-244.
• Cross-faults and differential stretching of hangingwalls in regions of low-angle normal faulting: examples form western Turkey: Geol. Soc. London Spec. Pub. 28, pp. 575–589.
• Orojenik mozayiklerde yanal atım tektoniğinin önemine bir örnek: İran ve çevresinin Mesozoyik tektonik evrimi (An example of the importance of strike-slip tectonics in orogenic collages: Mesozoic evolution of Iran and surroundings: in Biannual Petroleum Congress of Turkey, Proceedings-Geology, p. 50-64.
• (with C. Kissel, C. Laj, and A. Poisson) Palaeomagnetic evidence for rotation in opposite senses of adjacent blocks in north-eastern Aegea and western Anatolia: Geophys. Res. Lett., v. 14, p. 907-910.
• Aulacogen: in C. Seyfert, The Encyclopaedia of Structural Geology and Plate Tectonics: (Encyclopaedia of Earth Sciences volume X) Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, pp. 18–25.
• Impactogen: in C. Seyfert, edt., The Encyclopaedia of Structural Geology and Plate Tectonics: Encyclopaedia of Earth Sciences, volume X) Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, New York, pp. 336–340.

1988

• 1918'de Zürih'de İstanbullu bir doktora öğrencisi (A doctoral student from Istanbul in Zurich in 1918): Türk. Petrol. Jeol. Derneği Bülteni, v. 1, pp. 1–11.
• (with K.J. Hsü, S. Sun, H.H. Chen, and H.P. Pen) Mesozoic overthrust tectonics in south China: Geology, v. 16, p. 418-421.
• (with D. Altıner, A. Cin, T. Ustaömer, and K.J. Hsü). Origin and assembly of the Tethyside orogenic collage at the expense of Gondwana-Land: in Audley-Charles, M.G. and Hallam, A. (edts.) Gondwana and Tethys. Geol. Soc. London Spec. Pub. 37, p. 119-181.
• (with A. Kröner) All-China Conference on Tectonics: Episodes, v. 11, p. 49-50.
• (with Kevin Burke) Ten metre global sea-level change associated with South Atlantic Aptian salt deposition: Marine Geology, v. 83, pp. 309–312.
• Evaluating nuclear accidents: Nature, v. 335, p. 391.

1989

• The Tethyside Orogenic System: An Introduction. In Şengör, A.M.C., ed., Tectonic Evolution of the Tethyan Region, Kluwer, Dordrecht, pp. 1–22.
• (with K. Burke) Regional Lineaments and Continental Evolution: Mem. Geol. Soc. India. no. 12, pp. 65–73.
• (with A.İ. Okay and Xu Shutong) Coesite from the Dabie Shan eclogites, central China: Eur. J. Mineralogy, v. 1, . 595-598.
• (with A.İ. Okay and Xu Shutong) Merkezi Çin'deki Dabie Shan bölgesinin tektonik ve metamorfik evrimi (Tectonic and metamorphic evolution of the Dabie Shan region in central China). in Kural, O. and Kırıkoğlu, S., eds., İTÜ Maden Fakültesi 35. Yıl Sempozyumu, İstanbul, pp. 158–166.
• İTÜ Maden Fakültesi öğretim elemanlarına Üniversite dışından verilen ödüller: Türkiye'de yerbilimlerinin tarihine bir katkı (Awards given to the faculty members of the İTÜ School of Mines from outside the university: a contribution to the history of the earth sciences in Turkey): İTÜ Maden Fakültesi Bülteni, Haziran 1989, pp. 56–69.
• (with K.J. Hsü, Sun Shu, Li Jiliang, Chen Haihong, and Pen Haipo) Mesozoic overthrust tectonics in south China, Reply: Geology, v. 17, pp. 386–387.
• (with K.J. Hsü, Sun Shu, Li Jiliang, Chen Haihong, and Pen Haipo) Mesozoic overthrust tectonics in south China, Reply: Geology, v. 17, pp. 672–673.

1990

• A new model for the late Palaeozoic-Mesozoic tectonic evolution of Iran and implications for Oman: Geol. Soc. London Spec. Pub. No. 49, pp. 797–831.
• Plate tectonics and orogenic research after 25 years: A Tethyan perspective: Earth Sci. Rev., v. 27, pp. 1–201.
• Lithotectonic terranes and the plate tectonic theory of orogeny: a critique of the principles of terrane analysis in T.J. Wiley D.G. Howell, and F.L. Wong eds. - Terrane Analysis of China and the Pacific Rim: Houston, Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 13, pp. 9–44.
• (with J.F. Dewey) Terranology: Vice or Virtue? Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. London, v. 331, pp. 457–477.
• Tethys, Thetis, Thethys or Thetys? What, where and when was it? Comment: Geology, v. 18, p. 575.
• (with K.J. Hsü, Li Jiliang, Chen Haihong, Wang Qingchen, and Sun Shu) Tectonics of South China: Key to understanding of west Pacific geology. Tectonophysics, v. 183, pp. 9–39.
• (with Mustafa Sarıbudak, Muzaffer Sarıver, and Naci Görür) Palaeomagnetic evidence for substantial rotation of the Almacık flake within the North Anatolian Fault zone, northwestern Turkey. Geophys. Jour., v. 102, pp. 563–568.
• (with A. Kröner) Archean and Proterozoic ancestry in late Precambrian to early Paleozoic crustal elements of southern Turkey as revealed by single zircon dating: Geology, v. 18, pp. 1886–1990.
• (with A. Berthelsen) How was Europe put together? in Calder,N. (ed.) Scientific Europe Research and Technology in 20 Countries: Nature & Technology, Scientific Publishers, Maastricht, pp. 108–121.
• (with A. Berthelsen) Wie Europa entstand? (German edition of 96): Spektrum, Heidelberg, pp. 108–121.
• (with A. Berthelsen) ¿Cómo se formó Europa? (Catalan edition of 96): Editorial Labor, Barcelona, pp. 108–121.

1991

• Timing of orogenic events: a persistent geological controversy. in Modern Controversies in Geology (Proceedings of the Hsü Symposium edited by D.W. Müller, J.A. McKenzie, and H. Weissert: Academic Press, London, pp. 405–473.
• Plate tectonics and orogenic research after 25 years: synopsis of a Tethyan perspective. Tectonophysics, v. 187, pp. 315–344.
• Difference between Gondwana and Gondwana-Land: Geology, v. 19, pp. 287–288.
• Late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic tectonic evolution of the Middle Eastern Tethysides: Implications for the Palaeozoic geodynamics of the Tethyan realm. in Baud, A., Thélin, P. & Stampfli, G. (eds.). Newsletter No. 2 of IGCP Project No. 276, Mém. Géol. (Lausanne), no. 10, pp. 111–149.
• L'Evolution de l'univers. Galaxies, étoiles et planètes: Diogène, no. 155, pp. 20–28.
• Notre maison, la planète terre: Diogène, no. 155, pp. 29–55.
• The Evolution of the Universe: Diogenes, no. 155, pp. 17–24
• Our home the Planet Earth: Diogenes, no. 155, pp. 25–51
• Orogenic architecture as a guide to size of ocean lost in collisional mountain belts. Bull. Tech. Univ. İstanbul (Ketin Festschrift), v. 44, pp. 43–74.
• with A. Cin, D.B. Rowley and Nie S.Y.) Magmatic evolution of the Tethysides: a guide to reconstruction of collage history. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimat. Palaeoecol., v. 87, pp. 411–440.
• (with A.H. Okuroğulları) The rôle of accretionary wedges in the growth of continents: Asiatic examples from Argand to plate tectonics. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae. v. 84, pp. 535– 597.
• (with N. Görür, M. Sakınç, O. Tüysüz, E. Yiğitbaş, F. Y. Oktay, S. Engin, A. H. Okuroğulları, and K. Özgül) Türkiyle ve Çevresinin Geç Triyas-Miyosen dönemindeki paleocoğrafik evrimi(Late Triassic- Late Miocene palaeogeographic evolution of Turkey and its surroundings): in, S. Turgut (ed.), Türkiye ve Çevresinin Tektoniği - Petrol Potansiyeli, Ozan Sungurlu Sempozyumu Bildirileri, Kasım 1991/ Ankara, Türkiye: Ozan Sungurlu Bilim, Eğitim ve Yardım Vakfı, Ankara, pp. 174–189.

1992

• (with N. Görür) The palaeogeographic and tectonic evolution of the eastern Tethysides: implications for the NW Australian margin breakup history: In von Rad, U., and Haq, B. U. et al., Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, v. 122, College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), pp. 83–106.
• How to view the evolution of the Tethys: as a slide show or as a movie? Am. Jour. Sci. v. 292, p. 274-286
• Asia. Geologic History in Encyclopædia Britannica - Macropaedia, 16th Edition. Chicago, v. 14, p. 129-139
• Onsekizinci yüzyıl sonunda jeolojide Neptünist-Volkanist tartışmasının felsefi temelleri (Philosophical foundations of the Neptunist-Vulcanist controversy at the end of the eighteenth century): Bilim Tarihi, Nisan 1992 (no. 6), p. 16-24
• (with Xu, S T., Okay, A. İ., Ji, Shouyuan, Su, W., Liu Y. C., Jiang, L. I.) Diamond from the Dabie Shan Metamorphic Rocks and its implication for tectonic setting: Science, v. 256, pp. 80–82
• (with A. İ. Okay) Evidence for intracontinental thrust-related exhumation of the ultra-highpressure rocks in China: Geology, v. 20, pp. 411–414.
• (with Lev P. Zonenshain) Laudatio auf Viktor Efimowitsch Chain: Geol. Rundsch., v. 81, p. 263-265
• The Palaeo-Tethyan suture: A line of demarcation between two fundamentally different architectural styles in the structure of Asia. The Island Arc, v. 1, pp. 78–91
• Batlamyüs’ü Batıya tanıtan adam: İstanbul’lu Emanuel Chrysoloras (The man who introduced Ptolemy to the west: Emanuel Chrysoloras from İstanbul): Bilim Tarihi, Temmuz 1992 (no. 9), pp. 11–12
• The mountain and the bull: The origin of the word "Taurus" as part of the earliest tectonic hypothesis: in, Başgelen, N., Çelgin, G. and Çelgin, V., edts., Zafer Taşlıklıoğlu Armağanı (Festschrift für Zafer Taşlıklıoğlu), Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, İstanbul, pp. 1–48
• La evolución del Universo. Galaxias, estrellas y planetas: Diógenes, n. 155, pp. 20–28.
• Nuestro hogar, el planeta Tierra: Diógenes, n. 155, pp. 29–57.

1993

• (With A. Cin, David B. Rowley, and Nie Shengyou) Space-time patterns of magmatism along the Tethysides: a preliminary study: Jour. Geology, v. 101, pp. 51–84.
• (With Boris A. Natal’in and Valentin S. Burtman) Evolution of the Altaid tectonic collage and Palaeozoic crustal growth in Eurasia: Nature, v. 364, pp. 299–307 (Title-story with News & Views article by William R. Dickinson).
• Some current problems on the tectonic evolution of the Mediterranean during the Cainozoic: in Boschi, E., Mantovani, E., and Morelli, A., eds., Recent Evolution and Seismicity of the Mediterranean Region, NATO ASI Series, Series C: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, v. 402: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Holland pp. 1–51.
• Turkic-type orogeny in the Altaids: Implications for the evolution of continental crust and methodology of regional tectonic analysis (The 34th Bennett Lecture): Trans. Leicester Lit. Phil. Soc., v. 87, p. 37-54.
• Tarihsel disciplinlerin bilimselliği üzerine (on the scientific status of historical disciplines):Bilim Tarihi, Kasım 1993 (no. 25), pp. 11–30.
• (with Aral İ. Okay and Muharrem Satır) Tectonics of an ultra-high pressure metamorphic terrane: The Dabie Shan/Tongbai Shan orogen, China: Tectonics, v. 12, pp. 1320–1334.
• Niçin Kuvaterner? (Why Quaternary?): Türkiye Kuvaterneri Workshop Bildiri Özleri, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Maden Fakültesi, Jeoloji mühendisliği Bölümü, Genel Jeoloji Anabilim Dalı TÜBİTAK-GloTek, pp. 1–2 (Foreword).

1994

• (with B. A. Natal'in and V. S. Burtman) Tektonitscheskaja evoljutzija Altaid (Tectonic evolution of the Altaids): Geol. i Geof., 7-8, 41-58 (in Russian)
• (with A. I. Okay and N. Görür) The Black Sea: Kinematic history of its opening and its effect on the surrounding regions: Geology, v. 22, pp. 267–270.
• Charles Lyell: In Eblen, R. A. and Eblen, W. R., eds.,The Encyclopaedia of the Environment: Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, pp. 430–431
• Eduard Suess: In Eblen, R. A. and Eblen, W. R., eds.,The Encyclopaedia of the Environment: Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, pp. 676–677.
• (with N. Görür, M. Sakınç, O. Tüysüz, R. Akkök, E. Yiğitbas, F. Y. Oktay, A. Barka, and N. Sarıca) Cross-cutting rift stystems of the Gökova Region, SW. Anatolia; implications for the formation of the Aegean Sea: Bull. Tech. Univ. Istanbul (Şuhubi Festschrift), v. 47, pp. 275–292.

1995

• (with M. B. Allen and B. A. Natal'in) Junggar, Turfan, and Alakol basins as Late Permian to ?Early Triassic sinistral shear structures in the Altaid orogenic collage, Central Asia. Jour. Geol. Soc London, v. 152, pp. 327–338.
• (with A. İ. Okay and N. Görür) Karadeniz'in açılması ve bunun çevre bölgeleri üzerindeki etkisi (The opening of the Black Sea and its effects on the surrounding regions): Nezihi Canıtez Simpozyumu, 12-14 Nisan, İstanbul, Jeofizik, v. 9, pp. 83–89.
• The larger tectonic framework of the Zonguldak Coal Basin in Northern Turkey: An outsider's view: In Yalçın, M. N., and Gürdal, G., eds., Zonguldak Basin Research Wells—I Kozlu- K20/G: Special Publication of TUBITAK, MAM, pp. 1–26 (with a Turkish summary).
• Sedimentation and tectonics of fossil rifts: In Busby, C. J. and Ingersoll, R. V., edts., Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 53–117.
• (with N. Görür, M. Sakınç, O. Tüysüz, R. Akkök, E. Yiğitbaş, F. Y. Oktay, A. Barka, N. Sarıca, B. Ecevitoğlu, E. Demirbağ, Ş. Ersoy, O. Algan, C. Güneysu, and A. Aykol) Rift formation in the Gökova region, southwest Anatolia: implications for the opening of the Aegean Sea: Geol. Mag., v. 132, pp. 637–650.
• Prens Pierre de Tchihatchef: Toplumsal Tarih, v. 3, no. 14, pp. 34–38. 134. (with K. J. Hsü, G. T. Pan, Briegel, U., H. H. Chen, C. H. Chen, N. Harris, P. Hsü, J. L. Li, J. N. Luo, T. Lee, Z. X. Li, C. Y. Lu, C. Powell, Q. C. Wang, E. L. Winterer) Tectonic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau: A working hypothesis based on the archipelago model of orogenesis: Int. Geol. Rev., v. 37, pp. 473–508.

1996

• Eine Ergänzung der Carlé'schen Liste der Veröffentlichungen von Hans Stille und einige Schlüsse: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte und Philosophie der tektonischen Forschung (Additions to Carlé's list of the publications of Hans Stille and some implications: a contribution to the history and philosophy of tectonic research): Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Jg. 1994, no. 9/10, pp. 1051–1106.
• (with B. A. Natal'in) Palaeotectonics of Asia: Fragments of A Synthesis : In, Yin, A. and Harrison, M., eds., The Tectonic Evolution of Asia, Rubey Colloquium, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 486–640.
• (with B. A. Natal'in) Turkic-type orogeny and its rôle in the making of the continental crust: Ann. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. v. 24, pp. 263–337.
• (with J. E. T. Channel, O. Tüysüz, and O. Bektaş) Jurassic-Cretaceous paleomagnetism and paleogeography of the Pontides (Turkey): Tectonics, v. 15, pp. 201–212
• (with O. Tatar) Editorial Note: International Geology Review, v. 38, p. 691.
• (with O. Tatar and G. W. Ernst) Editorial Note: International Geology Review, v. 38, p. 787.

1997

• Asia: in Moores, E. and Fairbridge, E., edts., Encyclopedia of European and Asian Regional Geology: Chapman and Hall, London, pp. 34–51
• Turkey: in Moores, E. and Fairbridge, E., edts., Encyclopedia of European and Asian Regional Geology: Chapman and Hall, London, pp. 732–743.
• (with N. Görür, O. Monod, A. I. Okay, O. Tüysüz, E. Yiğitbaş, M. Sakınç, and R. Akkök) Palaeogeographic and tectonic position of the Carboniferous rocks of the western Pontides(Turkey) in the frame of the Variscan Belt: Bull. Soc. Géol. France, v. 168, pp. 197–205.
• (with A. Barka, R. Reilinger, F. Şaroğlu) The Isparta Angle: Its importance in the neotectonics of the Eastern Mediterranean region: in Pişkin, Ö., Ergün, M., Savaşçın, Y., and Tarcan, G., editors, Proceedings of the International Earth Sciences Colloquium on the Aegean Region(IESCA-95), İzmir, v. I, pp. 3–17.
• (with Dan McKenzie) Memorial to İhsan Ketin: Geol. Soc. America Memorials, v. 28 (November 1977), pp. 31–35.

1998

• (with Y. Yılmaz, O. Tüysüz, E. Yiğitbaş, Ş. C. Genç) Geology and tectonic evolution of the Pontides: in Robinson, A. editor, Regional and Petroleum Geology of the Black sea and Surrounding Region, AAPG Memoir 68, pp. 183–226
• (with N. Görür and O. Tüysüz) Tectonic evolution of the Central Anatolian Basins: Int. Geol. Rev., v. 40, pp. 831–850.
• Die Tethys: vor hundert Jahren und heute: Mitt. Österr. Geol. Ges., v. 89, pp. 5–176.

1999

• Continental interiors and cratons: any relation? Tectonophysics, v. 305, pp. 1–42. 150. Some salient European contributions to Cordilleran tectonics: in Moores, E. M., Sloan, D., and Stout, D. L., editors, Classic Cordilleran Concepts: A View from California, The Geological Society of America, Special Paper 338, pp. 31–36.
• İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi 227. Açış Dersi—Akıl, Bilim, Deprem, İnsan [227th Opening Lesson of the İstanbul Technical University—Rationality, Science, Earthquake, Man]: İTÜ, İstanbul, [I]+39 pp.
• Akıl, Bilim, Deprem, İnsan [Rationality, Science, Earthquake, Man]: Cogito, no. 20 Deprem Özel Sayısı, Ek, 39 pp. (reprint of 151).
• Popüler yerbilimi—gerek ve amaçları [Popular earth science—its necessity and purpose]: Mavi Gezegen, no. 1, pp. 6–9.
• Önsöz [Preface]: Cogito, no. 20 Deprem Özel Sayısı [Earthquake Special Issue], pp. 9–10.
• (with Emin Demirbağ, Okan Tüysüz, Hülya Kurt, Naci Görür and İsmail Kuşçu) A preliminary note on the structure of the Gulf of İzmit: implications for the westerly prolongation of the North Anatolian Fault: in Karaca, M. and Ural, D. N., editors, Proceedings ITU-IAHS International Conference on the Kocaeli Earthquake 17 August 1999 A Scientific Assessment and Recommendations for Re-Building, İstanbul Technical University, Turkey, pp. 25–37.
• (with Xavier Le Pichon and Tuncay Taymaz) The Marmara Fault and the future İstanbul earthquake: in Karaca, M. and Ural, D. N., editors, Proceedings ITU-IAHS International Conference on the Kocaeli Earthquake 17 August 1999 A Scientific Assessment and Recommendations for Re-Building, İstanbul Technical University, Turkey, pp. 41–54
• (with J. R. Parke, T. A. Minshull, G. Anderson, R. S. White, D. McKenzie, İ. Kuşçu, J. M. Bull and N. Görür) Active faults in the Sea of Marmara, western Turkey, imaged by seismic reflection profiles: Terra Nova, v. 11, pp. 223–227.

2000

• Çeviriye Önsöz [Preface to the translation]: in Levy, M. and Salvadori, M., Deprem Kuşağı— Deprem Nedir? Ne Değildir? çeviren Turgut Gürer: Doğan Kitapçılık A. Ş., İstanbul, pp. 11–17.
• Jeolojik Takvim [Geological Calendar]: Cogito, no. 22, Ek [Supplement], 47 pp.+ one foldout geological timetable.
• Amasyalı Strabon ve coğrafyası [Strabo of Amasya and his geography]: Cogito, no. 22, pp. 17–18
• Prens Pierre de Tchihatchef ve Eserleri [Prince Pierre de Tchihatchef and his work]: in Pierre de Tchihatchef İstanbul ve Boğaziçi (çeviri Ali Berktay), Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 97, İstanbul, pp. vii-xvii.
• Die Bedeutung von Eduard Suess (1831-1914) für die Geschichte der Tektonik: Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, v. 51, pp. 57–72.
• 17 Ağustos 1999 Kocaeli depremi: jeolojik ortam [The 17 August 1999 Kocaeli earthquake: its geological environment]: Hava Harp Okulu Bülteni, Deprem Özel Sayısı, pp. 59–104.
• Ben neredeyim, sen neredesin, o nerede? Kültür ve uygarlık tarihinin bir parçası olarak haritalar ve haritacılık (Where am I? Where are you? Where is that? Maps and mapmaking as elements of the history of culture and civilization): in Yeryüzü Suretleri Images of the Earth F. Muhtar Katırcığlu Harita Koleksiyonu (F. Muhtar Katırcıoğlu Map Collection), Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık, İstanbul, pp. 11–29. (bilingual publication).
• İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi 227. Açış Dersi—Akıl, Bilim, Deprem, İnsan [227th Opening Lesson of the İstanbul Technical University—Rationality, Science, Earthquake, Man]: Hava Harp Okulu Bülteni, Deprem Özel Sayısı, pp. 1–57 (new edition of item 151, revised and enlarged by a foreword)

2001

• Lyell, Charles: in Eblen, R. A. and Eblen, W. R., editors, The Environment Encyclopedia, v. 6, Marshall Cavendish, Tarrytown, NY, pp. 784–785.
• Elevation as indicator of mantle plume activity: in Ernst, R. and Buchan, K., editors, Geological Society of America Special Paper 352, pp. 183–225.
• (with B. A. Natal'in) Rifts of the world: in Ernst, R. and Buchan, K., editors, Geological Society of America Special Paper 352, pp. 389–482.
• (with X. Le Pichon, E. Demirbağ, C. Rangin, C. Imren, R. Armijo, N. Görür, N. Çağatay, B. Mercier de Lepinay, B. Meyer, R. Saatçılar and B. Tok) The active Marmara fault: Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett., v. 192, pp. 595–616.
• Essay review: A new portrait of the Swiss Alps: American Journal of Science, v. 301, pp. 593–596.
• (with Mehmet Sakınç) Structural Rocks: Stratigraphic Implications: in Briegel, U. and Xiao, W. J., eds., Paradoxes in Geology (Hsü Volume), Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 131–227.

2002

• What's wrong with shortening? GSA Today, v. 12, no. 1, p. 31.
• Citation for the Penrose Medal presented to Kenneth Jinghwa Hsu: GSA Today, v. 12, no. 2, pp. 14–15 (short version in 113th Annual Meeting, The Geological Society of America— Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony, Boston 2001: A Geo-Odyssey, p. 9)
• On Sir Charles Lyell’s alleged distortion of Abraham Gottlob Werner in Principles of Geology and its implications for the nature of the scientific enterprise: Journal of Geology, v. 110, pp. 355–368.
• Is the ‘Symplegades’ myth the record of a tsunami that entered the Bosphorus? Simple empirical roots of complex mythological concepts: in Aslan, R., Blum, S., Kastl, G., Schweizer, F. and Thumm, D., eds., Mauerschau, Festschrift für Manfred Korfmann, Verlag Bernhard

Albert Greiner, Remshalden-Grunbach, v. 3, pp. 1005–1028.

• (with E. Demirbağ, C. Rangin and X. Le Pichon) Investigation of the tectonics of the Main Marmara Fault by means of deep-towed seismic data: Tectonophysics, v. 361, pp. 1–19.
• (with Stüwe K., Grasemann B. and deVivo B.), 2002, 1.5 – Geology: in: Knowledge for Sustainable Development - An Insight into the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, UNESCO Publishing / Eolss Publishers, Paris, France, Oxford, UK. pp. 119–144.
• Parke, J. R.; White, R. S.; McKenzie, D.; Minshull, T. A.; Bull, J. M.; Kuşçu, I.; Görür, N.; Şengör, C. Interaction between faulting and sedimentation in the Sea of Marmara, western Turkey: Journal of Geophysical Research, v.10.1029/2001JB000450.

2003

• (with Xavier Le Pichon, N. Chamot-Rooke and C. Rangin) The North Anatolian Fault in the Sea of Marmara: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 108 (B4), 2179, doi: 10.1029/2002JB001862
• (with S. Özeren, E. Zor and T. Genç) Doğu Anadolu litosfer mekaniğine yeni bir yaklaşım (a new approach to the lithospheric mechanics of Eastern Anatolia): in Türkiye Kuvaterneri Çalıştayı IV, 29-30 Mayıs 2003 İstanbul, İTÜ Avrasya Yerbilimleri

Enstitüsü-TÜBİTAK, pp. 100–109.

• The repeated rediscovery of mélanges and its implications for the possibility and the role of objective evidence in the scientific enterprise: in Dilek, Y. and Newcomb, S., editors, Ophiolite Concept and the Evolution of Geological Thought, Geological Society of America Special Paper 373, pp. 385–445.
• (with S. Özeren, T. Genç and E. Zor) East Anatolian high plateau as a mantle supported, north-south shortened domal structure: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 30 (24). 8045

2004

• (with B. A. Natal’in) Tectonics of the Altaids: an example of a Turkic-type orogen: in van der Pluijm, B. A. and Marshak, S., Earth Structure—An Introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics, second edition: W. W. Norton & Co., New York, pp. 535–546.
• (with B. A. Natal'in) Phanerozoic analogues of Archaean oceanic basement fragments: Altaid ophiolites and ophirags: in Kusky, T. M., editor, Precambrian Ophiolites and Related Rocks, Developments in Precambrian Geology, v. 13, Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 675–726.
• (with İ. Kuşçu, J. R. Parke, R. S. White, D. McKenzie, G. A. Anderson, T. A. Minshull and N. Görür) Amasra açıklarında (Güneybatı Karadeniz) aktif kütle kayması ve bunun bölgesel tektonik hareketlerle ilişkisi [Active mass movement offshore Amasra (southwestern Black Sea) and its relationshep with regional tectonic movements]: Maden Tetkik ve Arama Dergisi, No. 128, pp. 27–47.
• (with İ. Kuşçu, J. R. Parke, R. S. White, D. McKenzie, G. A. Anderson, T. A. Minshull and N. Görür) Active slumping offshore Amasra (Southwest Black sea) and its relation with regional tectonics: Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration, No. 128, pp. 27– 47.

2005

• (with O. Tüysüz, C. İmren, M. Sakınç, H. Eyidoğan, N. Görür, X. Le Pichon and C. Rangin) The North Anatolian Fault: A new look: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 33, pp. 37–112.
• (of the Books section): Extrait de la leçon inaugurale: La Lettre du Collège de France, No 13, Fevrier 2005, p. 5
• (with B. A. Natal'in) Late Palaeozoic to Triassic evolution of the Turan and Scythian platforms: The pre-history of the Palaeo-Tethyan closure: Tectonophysics, v. 404, pp. 175–202.
• Repeated independent discovery and ‘objective evidence’ in science: an example from geology: in Irzık, G. and Güzeldere, G., eds., Turkish Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Springer, The Netherlands, pp. 113–136.
• (with F. Çağman) Pirî Reis’in 1513 tarihli haritasını kim buldu? in Uluslararası Piri Reis Sempozyumu Tebliğler Kitabı 27-29 Eylül 2004 (Proceedings of the International Piri Reis Symposium 27–29 September 2004), no publisher [T. C. Deniz Kuvvetleri Seyir,hidrografi ve Oşinografi Dairesi], İstanbul, pp. 1–50 to 1-65.
• (with F. Çağman) Who discovered the 1513 map of Pirî Reis: in Uluslararası Piri Reis Sempozyumu Tebliğler Kitabı 27-29 Eylül 2004 (Proceedings of the International Piri Reis Symposium 27–29 September 2004), no publisher [T. C. Deniz Kuvvetleri Seyir,hidrografi ve Oşinografi Dairesi], İstanbul, pp. 1–66 to 1-75
• Jeolojik Takvim [Geological Calendar]: Cogito, no. 22, Ek [Supplement], 47 pp.+ one foldout geological timetable. Jeoloji Mühendisleri Odası adına ek olarak basılmıştır. [Printed as a supplement for the Chamber of Geological Engineers] no date of reprinting.

2006

• Orogenic style, sea-level, Sr isotopes and a brief history of the Earth for the last 600 million years: Russian Geology and Geophysics, v. 47 (N.L. Dobretsov volume), pp. 26–34.
• Chaire Internationale: Cours et Travaux du Collège de France, Résumés 2004-2005, Annuraire 105e Année, Collège de France, Paris, ss. 805-829.
• Ex oriente lux mundi (essay review): Annals of Science, v. 63, pp. 483–492.
• Osmanlı niçin bir deniz devleti olamadı? Osmanlı Devleti'nin çöküş süreci ile denizlerde gerilemesi arasındaki ilişkiler [Why the Ottomans could not become a sea power? Relationships between the fall of the Ottoman Empire and its decline in the seas]: Donanma Komutanlığı, Donanma Komutanlığı 3ncü Deniz Harp Tarihi Semineri: Ankara Deniz İkmal Grup Komutanlığı Basımevi Amirliği, Ankara, pp. 3–16—3-39
• Grundzüge der geologischen Gedanken von Eduard Suess Teil 1: Einführung und erkenntnistheoretische Grundlagen: Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, Wien, v. 146, pp. 265–301.

2007

• A lot about a little bit of England (essay review): Annals of Science, v. 64, pp. 251–279.
• (with B. A.Natal’in) Eduard Suess and the Altaids: What is in a name? in Seltmann, R., Borisenko, A.and Fedoseev, G., Editors, Magmatism and Metallogeny of the Altai and Adjacent Large Igneous Provinces with an introductory Essay on the Altaids, IAGOD Guidebook Series 16. CERCAMS/NHM, London, SS. 185-294.

2008

• (with M. S. Özeren, M. Keskin, M. Sakınç, A. D. Özbakır and İ. Kayan) Eastern Turkish high plateau as a small Turkic-type orogen: implications for post-collisional crust-forming processes: Earth Science Reviews v. 90, pp. 1–48 doi:10.1016/j.earthscirev.2008.05.002
• (with S. Atayman and S. Özeren) A scale of greatness and causal classification of mass extinctions: implications for mechanisms: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 105, pp. 13736–13740
• (with S. Atayman and R. Presnell) Palaeo-Tethys, Permian extinction and stratabound copper-sulfide deposits of the Cimmerides: in Spencer, J. E. and Titley, S. R., editors, Circum- Pacific Tectonics, Geologic Evolution and Ore Deposits: Arizona Geological Society Digest, no. 22 (W. R. Dickinson volume), pp. 19–30
• (with L. Géli, P. Henry, T. Zitter, S. Dupré, M. Tryon, M. N. Çağatay, B. Mercier de Lépinay, X. Le Pichon, N. Görür, B. Natalin, G. Uçarkuş, S. Özeren, D. Volker, L. Gasperini, P. Burnard, S. Bourlange and the Marnaut Scientific Party) Gas emissions and active tectonics within the submerged section of the North Anatolian Fault zone in the Sea of Marmara: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 274, pp. 34–39 doi:101016/j.epsi.2008.06.047
• In Memoriam Jean Philippe Marcoux: Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 17, pp. 637–652.

2009

• Tectonic evolution of the Mediterranean: a dame with four husbands: Trabajos de Geologia, v. 29, pp. 45–50
• Warum wurde Suess zum Tektoniker? in Seidl, J., editor, Eduard Sueß und die Entwicklung der Erdwissenschaften zwischen Biedermeier und Sezession, Schriften des Universitätsarchivs Wien 14, Vienna University Press V&R Unipress- Göttingen, pp. 275–294
• 17. yüzyılın başlarına ait yeni bir Osmanlı dünya haritası [A new Ottoman world map from the beginning of the 17th century]: in Uluslararası Türk Deniz Gücü Tarihi Sempozyumu 16’ncı ve 17’nci Yüzyıllarda Hint Okyanusu’nda Osmanlı Deniz Varlığı, 20-22 Ekim 2008 İstanbul, Deniz Eğitim ve Öğretim Komutanlığı, İstanbul, Deniz Basımevi Müdürlüğü, İstanbul, pp. VI-2—VI- 8 (this is the introductory part of a joint presentation with Elisabeth Countess Kuefstein)
• Essay Review: A Rankean view of historical geology and its development: Earth Sciences History, v. 28, pp. 108–134.
• Açılış Konuşması (Opening Speech): 62. Türkiye Jeoloji Kurultayı, Bildiri Özleri Kitabı-I (Abstratcts Book-I) 31-17 Nisan/April 2009, Ankara, TMMOB Jeoloji Mühendisleri Odası, pp. Unpaginated [pp. IX-X]
• Einleitung: in Obručev, V. A. And Zotina, M., Eduard Suess 1937, Berichte der Geologischen Bundesanstalt, Wien, pp. 4–16.
• Energy potential and safety in the Mediterranean region: in Küçükşahin, A., editor, Seeking of Common Resolution for Energy Security, Republic of Turkey, General Staff, War College Command, Strategic Research Institute, Istanbul, pp. 279–321.
• Zum Lauf des Oxos, ein Nachtrag: in Stückelberger, A. und Mittenhuber, F., editors, Ptolemaios Handbuch der Geographie Ergänzungsband mit einer Edition des Kanons bedeutender Städte, Schwabe, Basel, pp. 316–318.
• (with Florian Mittenhuber) Die Geographie des Ptolemaios in der arabischen Tradition: in Stückelberger, A. Und Mittenhuber, F., editors, Ptolemaios Handbuch der Geographie Ergänzungsband mit einer Edition des Kanons bedeutender Städte, Schwabe, Basel, pp. 337– 355.
• Der tektonisch einseitige Schub von Eduard Sueß: mechanischer Unsinn oder geologische Wahrheit? Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt Wien, v. 149, Nr 2+3 (Cernajsek- Festschrift), pp. 391–410.

2010

• (with Özeren, M. S., Çağatay, M. N., Postacıoğlu, N., Görür, N. and Eriş, K.) Mathematical modelling of a potential tsunami associated with a late glacial submarine landslide in the Sea of Marmara: Geo-Marine Letters, DOI 10.1007/s00367-010-0191-1
• İstanbul’daki Jeolojik çalışmaların 1933’deki İstanbul Üniversitesi reformuna kadarki kısa tarihçesi [A brief history of the geological studies in İstanbul until the Istanbul University Reform of 1933]: in Örgün, Y. and Yılmaz Şahin, S., editors, İstanbul’un Jeolojisi Sempozyumu III Bildiriler Kitabı, Türkiye Jeoloji Mühendisleri Odası, İstanbul Şubesi, istanbul, 2-20.
• (with Özgül, N.) İstanbul'un iklim ve jeolojisi [Geology and Climatology of İstanbul]: in İstanbul Ansiklopedisi, NTV Yayınları, İstanbul, pp. 1–23
• Osmanlı'nın ilk jeoloji kitabı ve Osmanlı'da jeolojinin durumu hakkında öğrettikleri (The first geology book published by the Ottomans and what it teaches on the state of geology in the Ottoman Empire): Osmanlı Bilimi Araştırmaları, v. 11, pp. 120–159)

2011

• Predicting the threat of nuclear disasters: Nature, v. 472, p. 169.
• (with D. bernoulli) Rudolf Trümpy, incarnation du géologue alpin: Géochranique, no. 117, pp. 16–17

References

External links

• Academic curriculum vitae
• Biography in Turkish
• web page of İstanbul Technical University, Faculty of Mining, Geology Department

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