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Earth Science
Turkey
2022

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Earth Science

D-Index
67
Citations
18573
World Ranking
1205
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Earth Science in Turkey Leader Award

Overview

Aral I. Okay was affiliated with Istanbul Technical University in Turkey and contributed extensively to the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a primary focus on Geophysics. Their scholarly work spanned several subfields including Paleontology, Artificial Intelligence, Oceanography, and Atmospheric Science. The body of research encompassed a range of topics such as Geological and Geochemical Analysis, earthquake and tectonic studies, High-pressure geophysics and materials, Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, along with Marine and environmental studies.

The scientist published numerous papers, including significant works such as:

  • Uplift of Anatolia, 2020, TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES
  • İzmir-Ankara Suture as a Triassic to Cretaceous Plate Boundary-Data From Central Anatolia, 2020, Tectonics
  • Lawsonite composition and zoning as tracers of subduction processes: A global review, 2020, Lithos
  • Breaking plates: Creation of the East Anatolian fault, the Anatolian plate, and a tectonic escape system, 2023, Geology
  • Multiple Orbitoides d'Orbigny lineages in the Maastrichtian? Data from the Central Sakarya Basin (Turkey) and Arabian Platform successions (Southeastern Turkey and Oman), 2021, Swiss Journal of Palaeontology

Throughout their career, Aral I. Okay frequently collaborated with a set of coauthors, working notably alongside Ercan Özcan and Gültekin Topuz, each with 11 joint publications, and Andrew Kylander-Clark with 9. Other frequent collaborators included Aynur Hakyemez and Marcel Guillong.

The research outputs appeared repeatedly in several key academic journals, highlighting consistent contributions to these venues:

  • TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES (6 publications)
  • International Journal of Earth Sciences (5 publications)
  • Tectonics (3 publications)
  • Lithos (3 publications)
  • International Geology Review (3 publications)

The scientific work of Aral I. Okay supported advances in understanding tectonic processes and geological transformations, with a robust record in data-driven analysis and field studies within their domain of expertise.

Best Publications

  • Tethyan sutures of northern Turkey

    Aral I. Okay;Okan Tüysüz

  • Diamond from the Dabie Shan Metamorphic Rocks and Its Implication for Tectonic Setting

    Xu Shutong;Su Wen;Liu Yican;Jiang Laili

  • Coesite from the Dabie Shan eclogites, central China

    A. I. Okay;Shutong Xu;A. M. C. Sengor

  • Aegean tectonics: Strain localisation, slab tearing and trench retreat

    Laurent Jolivet;Claudio Faccenna;Benjamin Huet;Loïc Labrousse

  • Kinematic history of the opening of the Black Sea and its effect on the surrounding regions

    Aral I. Okay;A.M. Celal Şengör;Naci Görür

  • Geology of the Eastern Pontides

    Aral I. Okay;Ömer Şahintürk

  • AAPG Memoir 68: Regional and Petroleum Geology of the Black Sea and Surrounding Region. Chapter 15: Geology of the Eastern Pontides

    Aral I. Okay;Omer Sahinturk

  • Tectonics of an ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terrane: The Dabie Shan/Tongbai Shan Orogen, China

    Aral I. Okay;A. M. Celal Şengör;Muharrem Satir

  • Petrology of a diamond and coesite-bearing metamorphic terrain: Dabie Shan, China

    Aral I. Okay

  • Evidence for intracontinental thrust-related exhumation of the ultra-high-pressure rocks in China

    Aral I. Okay;A. M. Celal Şengör

  • Apatite fission-track data for the Miocene Arabia-Eurasia collision

    Aral I. Okay;Massimiliano Zattin;William Cavazza

  • Active faults and evolving strike-slip basins in the Marmara Sea, northwest Turkey: a multichannel seismic reflection study

    A.I. Okay;A. Kaşlılar-Özcan;C. İmren;A. Boztepe-Güney

  • Coeval plutonism and metamorphism in a latest Oligocene metamorphic core complex in northwest Turkey

    Aral I. Okay;Muharrem Satir

  • Obduction, subduction and collision as reflected in the Upper Cretaceous–Lower Eocene sedimentary record of western Turkey

    Aral I. Okay;Izver Tansel;Okan Tüysüz

  • Post-collision magmatism and tectonics in northwest Anatolia

    Nigel B. W. Harris;Simon Kelley;Aral I. Okay

  • AN ACTIVE, DEEP MARINE STRIKE-SLIP BASIN ALONG THE NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT IN TURKEY

    Aral I. Okay;Emin Demirbağ;Hülya Kurt;Nilgün Okay

  • The tectonics of the Strandja Massif: late-Variscan and mid-Mesozoic deformation and metamorphism in the northern Aegean

    A. I. Okay;M. Satır;O. Tüysüz;S. Akyüz

  • 40Ar-39Ar and Rb-Sr geochronology of high-pressure metamorphism and exhumation history of the Tavsanli Zone, NW Turkey

    Sarah Sherlock;Simon Kelley;Simon Inger;Nigel Harris

  • Tectonic evolution of the southern margin of Laurasia in the Black Sea region

    Aral I. Okay;Anatoly M. Nikishin

  • Triassic blueschists and eclogites from northwest Turkey: vestiges of the Paleo-Tethyan subduction

    Aral I. Okay;Olivier Monod;Patrick Monié

Frequent Co-Authors

Okan Tüysüz
Okan Tüysüz Soyak Enerji
Muharrem Satir
Muharrem Satir University of Tübingen
William Cavazza
William Cavazza University of Bologna
Massimiliano Zattin
Massimiliano Zattin University of Padua
Andrew R.C. Kylander-Clark
Andrew R.C. Kylander-Clark University of California, Santa Barbara
Roland Oberhänsli
Roland Oberhänsli University of Potsdam
Sarah C. Sherlock
Sarah C. Sherlock The Open University
Christian Chopin
Christian Chopin École Normale Supérieure
Philippe Agard
Philippe Agard Sorbonne University
Rainer Altherr
Rainer Altherr Heidelberg University

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