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2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Earth Science in Turkey Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Earth Science in Turkey Leader Award

Overview

Erdin Bozkurt is affiliated with Middle East Technical University in Turkey and specializes in Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on geophysics. Their research portfolio includes earthquake and tectonic studies, high-pressure geophysics and materials, earthquake detection and analysis, geological and geochemical analysis, rock mechanics and modeling, as well as disaster response and management and disaster management and resilience.

Bozkurt's recent scholarly output includes publications in several peer-reviewed journals. Notable papers include:

  • "Surface deformations of the 6 February 2023 earthquake sequence, eastern Türkiye" (2024, Science)
  • "Greece and Turkey Shaken by African tectonic retreat" (2021, Scientific Reports)
  • "Surface deformations of 24 January 2020 Sivrice (Elazığ)-Doğanyol (Malatya) earthquake (Mw = 6.8) along the Pütürge segment of the East Anatolian Fault Zone and its comparison with Turkey's 100-year-surface ruptures" (2020, Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews)
  • "Twin Earthquakes Devastate Southeast Türkiye and Syria: First Report from the Epicenters" (2023, Journal of Earth Science)
  • "Partitioning Anatolian Kinematics into Tectonic Escape and Slab Rollback Dominated Domains" (2024, Journal of Earth Science)

The scientist frequently publishes in the Geological Journal and the Journal of Earth Science, among other venues such as Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Science, and Scientific Reports.

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Timothy Kusky
  • Jiannan Meng
  • Ozan Sinoplu
  • Ian D. Somerville
  • John Armstrong-Altrin

Best Publications

  • Neotectonics of Turkey – a synthesis

    Erdin Bozkurt

  • Tectonics and Magmatism in Turkey and the Surrounding Area

    Erdin Bozkurt;John A. Winchester;John D. A. Piper

  • Menderes Massif (Western Turkey): structural, metamorphic and magmatic evolution – a synthesis

    Erdin Bozkurt;Roland Oberhänsli

  • Southern Menderes Massif: an incipient metamorphic core complex in western Anatolia, Turkey

    E. Bozkurt;L R.G. Park

  • Origin of NE-trending basins in western Turkey

    Erdin Bozkurt

  • Tectonic evolution of the Gediz Graben: field evidence for an episodic, two-stage extension in western Turkey

    Erdin Bozkurt;Hasan Sözbi̇li̇r

  • Timing of Extension on the Büyük Menderes Graben, Western Turkey, and Its Tectonic Implications

    Erdin Bozkurt

  • Defining the southern margin of Avalonia in the Pontides: Geochronological data from the Late Proterozoic and Ordovician granitoids from NW Turkey

    Aral I. Okay;Erdin Bozkurt;Muharrem Satır;Erdinç Yiğitbaş

  • Introduction to the Geology of Turkey—A Synthesis

    Erdin Bozkurt;Steven K. Mittwede

  • Late Alpine evolution of the central Menderes Massif, western Turkey

    Erdin Bozkurt

  • Structure and geochemistry of an Alaskan-type ultramafic–mafic complex in the Eastern Pontides, NE Turkey

    Yener Eyuboglu;Yener Eyuboglu;Yildirim Dilek;Erdin Bozkurt;Osman Bektas

  • The southern Menderes Massif (western Turkey): geochronology and exhumation history

    Erdi̇n Bozkurt;Muharrem Satir

  • Evolution of the Miocene sedimentary fill of the Gediz Graben, SW Turkey

    N.B. Çiftçi;E. Bozkurt

  • Granitoid rocks of the southern Menderes Massif (southwestern Turkey): field evidence for Tertiary magmatism in an extensional shear zone

    Erdin Bozkurt

  • Introduction: Evolution of continental extensional tectonics of western Turkey

    Erdin Bozkurt;Steven K. Mittwede

  • Structural evolution of the Gediz Graben, SW Turkey: temporal and spatial variation of the graben basin

    N. B. Çiftçi;E. Bozkurt

  • A geochemical approach to Neogene–Quaternary volcanic activity of western Anatolia: An example of episodic bimodal volcanism within the Selendi Basin, Turkey

    Y. Ersoy;C. Helvacı;H. Sözbilir;F. Erkül

  • Metamorphic history of the southern Menderes massif, western Turkey

    Donna L. Whitney;Erdin Bozkurt

  • Exhumation with a twist: Paleomagnetic constraints on the evolution of the Menderes metamorphic core complex, western Turkey

    Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen;Douwe J. J. van Hinsbergen;Mark J. Dekkers;Erdin Bozkurt;Marijn Koopman

  • Pattern of normal faulting in the Gediz Graben, SW Turkey

    N. Bozkurt Çiftçi;Erdin Bozkurt

  • Evolution of the Rheic Ocean

    Erdin Bozkurt;M. Francisco Pereira;Robin Strachan;Cecilio Quesada

Frequent Co-Authors

Hasan Sözbilir
Hasan Sözbilir Dokuz Eylül University
Muharrem Satir
Muharrem Satir University of Tübingen
Laurent Jolivet
Laurent Jolivet Sorbonne University
Laurent Guillou-Frottier
Laurent Guillou-Frottier Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Quentin Crowley
Quentin Crowley Trinity College Dublin
Timothy M. Kusky
Timothy M. Kusky China University of Geosciences
Chris J. Ottley
Chris J. Ottley Durham University
Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen
Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen Utrecht University
Mark J. Dekkers
Mark J. Dekkers Utrecht University
Cahit Helvacı
Cahit Helvacı Dokuz Eylül University

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