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Okan Tüysüz

Okan Tüysüz

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Earth Science

D-Index
37
Citations
8774
World Ranking
6688
National Ranking
15

Overview

Okan Tüysüz is affiliated with Soyak Enerji in Turkey and conducts research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with notable contributions to Arts and Humanities. Their work spans a range of subfields including Archeology, Geophysics, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, and Paleontology.

The researcher's main areas of focus encompass several interconnected topics:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Marine and environmental studies
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and tectonic studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Tüysüz's research output includes the following recent papers:

  • "Examples of some criteria for determining paleoshorelines from Turkey and Rhodos Island," 2020, Bulletin Of The Mineral Research and Exploration
  • "Kurucaşile - Cide Dolayının Jeolojisi," 2021, Bulletin Of The Mineral Research and Exploration
  • "Heterogenous Late Holocene Climate in the Eastern Mediterranean-The Kocain Cave Record From SW Turkey," 2021, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles of the penultimate and last glacial period recorded in stalagmites from Türkiye," 2024, Nature Communications
  • "Societal responses to cold-season rainfall variability: a speleothem perspective on Byzantine and Hittite climate interactions in Late Holocene Türkiye and southeast Europe," 2025, Quaternary Science Reviews

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Dominik Fleitmann
  • Hai Cheng
  • Koray Koç
  • Frederick Held
  • R. Lawrence Edwards

Publication venues where Tüysüz has appeared multiple times include:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Bulletin Of The Mineral Research and Exploration
  • Nature Communications
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Türkiye Jeoloji Bülteni / Geological Bulletin of Turkey

Tüysüz's work engages interdisciplinary themes, drawing from both scientific and humanities approaches to better understand historical and environmental developments in Türkiye and the surrounding Eastern Mediterranean region. The publications often involve paleoclimate reconstructions, speleothem data analyses, and geologic assessments relevant to archaeological contexts and environmental variability.

Best Publications

  • Tethyan sutures of northern Turkey

    Aral I. Okay;Okan Tüysüz

  • THE NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT: A NEW LOOK

    A.M.C. Şengör;Okan Tüysüz;Caner İmren;Mehmet Sakınç

  • Geology and Tectonic Evolution of the Pontides

    Yücel Yilmaz;Okan Tüysüz;Erdinç Yiğitbaş;Ş. Can Genç

  • Timing and climatic impact of Greenland interstadials recorded in stalagmites from northern Turkey

    D. Fleitmann;D. Fleitmann;H. Cheng;S. Badertscher;S. Badertscher;R. L. Edwards

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

    Aral I. Okay;Izver Tansel;Okan Tüysüz

  • TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE CENTRAL ANATOLIAN BASINS

    Naci Görür;Okan Tüysüz;A. M. Celal Şengör

  • 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

  • Climate on the Southern Black Sea coast during the Holocene: implications from the Sofular Cave record

    O.M. Göktürk;O.M. Göktürk;D. Fleitmann;D. Fleitmann;S. Badertscher;S. Badertscher;H. Cheng;H. Cheng

  • Pleistocene water intrusions from the Mediterranean and Caspian seas into the Black Sea

    S. Badertscher;S. Badertscher;Dominik Fleitmann;Dominik Fleitmann;H. Cheng;H. Cheng;R. L. Edwards

  • The Black Sea basins structure and history: New model based on new deep penetration regional seismic data. Part 2: Tectonic history and paleogeography

    Anatoly M. Nikishin;Aral I. Okay;Okan Tüysüz;Ali Demirer

  • Cretaceous and Triassic subduction-accretion, high-pressure- low-temperature metamorphism, and continental growth in the Central Pontides, Turkey

    Aral Okay;Okan Tuysuz;Muharrem Satir;Sevinc Ozkan-Altiner

  • The Black Sea basins structure and history: New model based on new deep penetration regional seismic data. Part 1: Basins structure and fill

    Anatoly M. Nikishin;Aral I. Okay;Okan Tüysüz;Ali Demirer

  • Petrology and geochemistry of post-collisional Middle Eocene volcanic units in North-Central Turkey: Evidence for magma generation by slab breakoff following the closure of the Northern Neotethys Ocean

    Mehmet Keskin;Ş. Can Genç;Okan Tüysüz

  • Early Cretaceous sedimentation and orogeny on the active margin of Eurasia: Southern Central Pontides, Turkey

    Aral I. Okay;Gürsel Sunal;Sarah Sherlock;Demir Altner

  • Geology of the Cretaceous sedimentary basins of the Western Pontides

    Okan Tüysüz

  • Tectonic evolution of a part of the Tethyside orogenic collage: The Kargi Massif, northern Turkey

    Okan Tüysüz

  • Geology of the Saros graben and its implications for the evolution of the North Anatolian fault in the Ganos Saros region, northwestern Turkey

    Okan Tüysüz;Aykut Barka;Erdinç Yiğitbaş

  • Palaeogeographic and tectonic position of the Carboniferous rocks of the western Pontides (Turkey) in the frame of the Variscan belt

    Naci Gorur;Olivier Monod;Aral I. Okay;A. M. Celal Sengor

  • Tectonic setting of the Jurassic bimodal magmatism in the Sakarya Zone (Central and Western Pontides), Northern Turkey: A geochemical and isotopic approach

    Ş. Can Genç;Okan Tüysüz

  • A MAGMATIC BELT WITHIN THE NEO-TETHYAN SUTURE ZONE AND ITS ROLE IN THE TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF NORTHERN TURKEY

    Okan Tüysüz;A.Aziz Dellaloǧlu;Nuri Terzioǧlu

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominik Fleitmann
Dominik Fleitmann University of Basel
Aral I. Okay
Aral I. Okay Istanbul Technical University
Hai Cheng
Hai Cheng Xi'an Jiaotong University
Naci Görür
Naci Görür Istanbul Technical University
A. M. C. Şengör
A. M. C. Şengör Istanbul Technical University
Aykut Barka
Aykut Barka Istanbul Technical University
Sarah C. Sherlock
Sarah C. Sherlock The Open University
Markus Leuenberger
Markus Leuenberger University of Bern
Daniel Melnick
Daniel Melnick Austral University of Chile
Michael Wagreich
Michael Wagreich University of Vienna

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