Geology
of Turkey
Useful
links
Maden Tetkik ve Arama Genel
Müdürlüğü (MTA)
General Directorate for
Mineral Research & Exploration
This is the
most useful web site for the Geology of Turkey.
MTA is the Geological Survey of Turkey based in a large campus in
Ankara. Its web site has geological and geophysical maps
of Turkey in various scales. Full papers
of the Mineral Research & Exploration Bulletin
(Maden Tetkik ve Arama Dergisi), the oldest
geology periodical in Turkey published since 1936 are also on the web. The journal is published both in Turkish and
in foreign editions (generally in English).
MTA has also an extensive archive, part of the unpublished reports were
also available from the MTA web site but not anymore. The best library on the geology of Turkey is to be found
in the MTA campus. Maps, books,
periodicals published by MTA are on sale from its main office in Ankara. There is also a good geological museum on the premises.
Turkish Journal of Earth
Sciences
A dynamic,
outgoing journal published since 1991 by TÜBITAK, the Scientific and
Technological Research Council of Turkey.
The journal comes out in three issues a year and is being covered since
2004 by the Scientific Citation Index, the fourth journal do to so in Turkey. Full text of papers
published since 1998 are freely available on the web.
Published
since 1947, first by the Geological Society of Turkey and later by the Chamber
of the Geological Engineers. Türkiye
Jeoloji Bülteni, and the Bulletin of the Mineral Research & Exploration
(Maden Tetkik ve Arama Dergisi) were the two premier Turkish earth science
journals between the 1940s and 1980s.
Türkiye Jeoloji Bülteni is published in Turkish with English abstracts
and figure captions. Full papers are
available from the web site of the Chamber of Geological Engineers.
Many
universities in Turkey publish earth science or natural science journals. However, Yerbilimleri published by the earth
sciences institute of the Hacettepe University in Ankara has been the most
consistent and succesfull among these.
The Yerbilimleri is published since 1976, and papers
published since 2000 are freely available from its web site.
Kandilli Rasathanesi ve Deprem
Araştırma Enstitüsü
Kandilli Observatory and
Earthquake Research Institute
The
Kandilli Earthquake Research Institute of the Bosphorus University in Istanbul
is the largest seismological institite of Turkey. It does both post-graduate teaching and
research. In its website there is
information on the location, magnitude and time of the earthquakes in
Turkey over an hourly, daily and yearly basis.
Avrasya Yerbilimleri
Enstitüsü, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi
Eurasia Institute of Earth
Sciences, İstanbul Technical University
The
Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences in Istanbul was founded in 1997 within the
İstanbul Technical University. It
does research and post-graduate teaching mainly in solid earth and atmospheric
sciences. It is specially strong in
continental tectonics and marine Geology.
TÜBİTAK
Marmara Araştırma Merkezi (MAM), Yer ve Deniz Bilimleri Enstitüsü
TÜBITAK
Marmara Research Center (MAM), Earth & Marine Sciences Institute
Unlike the
other institutes, the Earth and Marine Sciences Institute of TÜBİTAK
located in Gebze about 90 km east of İstanbul, is not involved in
teaching. It does projects mainly in
seismology, remote sensing and geographic information systems.
Türkiyedeki jeoloji mühendisliği bölümleri
Türkiyedeki jeofizik
mühendisliği bölümleri
Geophysics departments in
Turkey