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  • 2007 - GSA Distinguished Service Award, The Geological Society of America

Overview

Yildirim Dilek is affiliated with Miami University in the United States and has an extensive publication record in the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research portfolio spans across several specialized areas including Geophysics, Artificial Intelligence applied to geosciences, Geology, Mechanics of Materials, and Paleontology.

The scientist's main research topics encompass:

  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Earthquake and Tectonic Studies
  • High-pressure Geophysics and Materials
  • Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis
  • Geological Formations and Processes

Yildirim Dilek has contributed to several notable recent papers, including:

  • "Geochemical characterization of ophiolites in the Alpine-Himalayan Orogenic Belt: Magmatically and tectonically diverse evolution of the Mesozoic Neotethyan oceanic crust," published in 2020 in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "Archean versus Phanerozoic oceanic crust formation and tectonics: Ophiolites through time," published in 2021 in Geosystems and Geoenvironment
  • "Slab-controlled elemental-isotopic enrichments during subduction initiation magmatism and variations in forearc chemostratigraphy," published in 2020 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • "Mid-Neoproterozoic collision of the Tarim Craton with the Yili-Central Tianshan Block towards the final assembly of Supercontinent Rodinia: A new model," published in 2022 in Earth-Science Reviews
  • "A middle Triassic seamount within the western Yarlung Zangbo suture zone, Tibet: The earliest seafloor spreading record of Neotethys to the North of East Gondwana," published in 2021 in Lithos

The frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Yildirim Dilek include:

  • Fengqi Zhang
  • Hanlin Chen
  • Yi Yan
  • Hong-Xiang Wu
  • Xiaogan Cheng

The scientist regularly publishes in several academic venues, among which the most frequent are:

  • Journal of the Geological Society
  • Geological Society of America Bulletin
  • Precambrian Research
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

In recognition of contributions to the geoscience community, Yildirim Dilek received the GSA Distinguished Service Award from The Geological Society of America in 2007.

Best Publications

  • The origin and pre-Cenozoic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau

    Di-Cheng Zhu;Zhi-Dan Zhao;Yaoling Niu;Yaoling Niu;Yildirim Dilek;Yildirim Dilek

  • Ophiolite genesis and global tectonics: Geochemical and tectonic fingerprinting of ancient oceanic lithosphere

    Yildirim Dilek;Harald Furnes

  • Ophiolites and Their Origins

    Yildirim Dilek;Harald Furnes

  • Lhasa terrane in southern Tibet came from Australia

    Di-Cheng Zhu;Zhi-Dan Zhao;Yaoling Niu;Yaoling Niu;Yaoling Niu;Yildirim Dilek

  • Structure and geochemistry of Tethyan ophiolites and their petrogenesis in subduction rollback systems

    Yildirim Dilek;Yildirim Dilek;Harald Furnes

  • Geochemical and Sr–Nd–Pb–O isotopic compositions of the post-collisional ultrapotassic magmatism in SW Tibet: Petrogenesis and implications for India intra-continental subduction beneath southern Tibet

    Zhidan Zhao;Xuanxue Mo;Yildirim Dilek;Yaoling Niu

  • Geochemistry of the Jurassic Mirdita Ophiolite (Albania) and the MORB to SSZ evolution of a marginal basin oceanic crust

    Yildirim Dilek;Harald Furnes;Minella Shallo

  • Cambrian bimodal volcanism in the Lhasa Terrane, southern Tibet: Record of an early Paleozoic Andean-type magmatic arc in the Australian proto-Tethyan margin

    Di-Cheng Zhu;Zhi-Dan Zhao;Yaoling Niu;Yaoling Niu;Yildirim Dilek;Yildirim Dilek

  • Suprasubduction zone ophiolite formation along the periphery of Mesozoic Gondwana

    Yildirim Dilek;Harald Furnes;Minella Shallo

  • Mélanges and mélange-forming processes: a historical overview and new concepts

    Andrea Festa;Gian Andrea Pini;Yildirim Dilek;Giulia Codegone

  • Structure and petrology of Tauride ophiolites and mafic dike intrusions (Turkey): Implications for the Neotethyan ocean

    Yildirim Dilek;Peter Thy;Bradley Hacker;Sidsel Grundvig

  • Ophiolite concept and its evolution

    Yildirim Dilek

  • Geochemistry and tectonics of Cenozoic volcanism in the Lesser Caucasus (Azerbaijan) and the peri-Arabian region: collision-induced mantle dynamics and its magmatic fingerprint

    Yildirim Dilek;Nazim Imamverdiyev

  • Arc-trench rollback and forearc accretion: 2. A model template for ophiolites in Albania, Cyprus, and Oman

    Yildirim Dilek;Martin F. J. Flower

  • Island arc tholeiite to boninitic melt evolution of the Cretaceous Kizildag (Turkey) ophiolite: Model for multi-stage early arc-forearc magmatism in Tethyan subduction factories

    Yildirim Dilek;Peter Thy

  • Ophiolites and Oceanic Crust: New Insights from Field Studies and the Ocean Drilling Program

    Yildirim Dilek;Eldridge M. Moores;Don Elthon;Adolphe Nicolas

  • What constitutes ‘emplacement’ of an ophiolite?: Mechanisms and relationship to subduction initiation and formation of metamorphic soles

    John Wakabayashi;Yildirim Dilek

  • Geochemical and temporal evolution of Cenozoic magmatism in western Turkey: Mantle response to collision, slab break-off, and lithospheric tearing in an orogenic belt

    Yildirim Dilek;Şafak Altunkaynak

  • Coexistence of abyssal and ultra-depleted SSZ type mantle peridotites in a Neo-Tethyan Ophiolite in SW Turkey: Constraints from mineral composition, whole-rock geochemistry (major–trace–REE–PGE), and Re–Os isotope systematics

    İbrahim Uysal;E. Yalçın Ersoy;Orhan Karslı;Yildirim Dilek

  • Ophiolite concept and the evolution of geological thought

    Yildirim Dilek;Sally Newcomb

  • Postcollisional Tectonics and Magmatism in the Mediterranean Region and Asia

    Yildirim Dilek;Spyros Pavlides

Frequent Co-Authors

Jingsui Yang
Jingsui Yang Nanjing University
Harald Furnes
Harald Furnes University of Bergen
Yujiro Ogawa
Yujiro Ogawa University of Tsukuba
Paul T. Robinson
Paul T. Robinson Dalhousie University
Ibrahim Uysal
Ibrahim Uysal Karadeniz Technical University
Ali Polat
Ali Polat University of Windsor
Yaoling Niu
Yaoling Niu China University of Geosciences
Eldridge M. Moores
Eldridge M. Moores University of California, Davis
Donna L. Whitney
Donna L. Whitney University of Minnesota
Brian J. Fryer
Brian J. Fryer University of Windsor

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