This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Selma Sarı and an international group of colleagues investigated the TOL-1 section in the Mut Basin (southern Türkiye), while documenting the world's highest known Late Middle Pleistocene (MIS 7) marine deposits, preserved at 1,177 m (3,860 feet) above mean sea level on the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau. Using an integrated approach combining calcareous nannofossil and foraminiferal biostratigraphy, paleomagnetism, stable isotopes and paleobathymetric reconstruction based on ostracod assemblages, the authors constrained the timing of marine deposition and calculated an exceptionally rapid surface uplift rate of about 5.2 meters for every thousand years.
These findings offer a rare high-resolution temporal benchmark linking stratigraphic records of marine deposition to deep-seated geodynamic processes, including slab break-off and mantle flow, that drive rapid surface uplift along active convergent margins. This publication marks the culmination of early-career research by Sarı at Università degli Studi Roma Tre. The study is published in the journal Geology.
Selma Sarı et al, The world's highest late Middle-Pleistocene marine deposits on the southern margin of the Central Anatolian Plateau (southern Türkiye), Geology (2026). DOI: 10.1130/g55209.1 Provided by Geological Society of America Bachelor's in mathematical biology, Master's in creative writing. Well-traveled with unique perspectives on science and language.
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