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Raised braided stream gravels on Mount Keldağ, Hatay (Eastern Mediterranean coast, Turkey): implications of transformation to beachrock and ensuing tectonic uplift

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On the seaward northwest slopes of Mount Keldağ, Hatay, the combination of an unconformably overlapping sequence of cemented gravels on a wave-cut platform, and a raised notch and irregular pits left by grazing molluscs on the walls of this notch, carved in an NE-trending high-angle fault plane, retain the record of raised braided stream gravels transformed into beachrock. From the OSL ages, this study reveals that deposition of this sequence occurred between 232.30 ± 31.62 and 214.01 ± 27.42 ka during the penultimate interglacial. The four distinct facies identified are massive matrix-supported conglomerate, massive to crudely stratified gravel, cross-stratified gravel, and clast-supported open-work gravel. Extending to the paleo-coastline during the MIS7 highstand, this sequence was cemented by carbonate and iron-oxide cements and records an uplift of around 0.1 mm/year up to the present.

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AEE thanks the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) for their support in the framework of the Distinguished Young Scientist Award Program (TÜBA-GEBİP). Graham H. Lee is thanked for proofreading the English in the earlier version of the paper. We thank two anonymous reviewers for critically reading the paper and suggesting constructive comments.

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  1. Department of Geography Education, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, 17100, Çanakkale, Turkey

    Ahmet Evren Erginal & Oya Erenoğlu

  2. Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Ankara University, Beşevler, 06100, Ankara, Turkey

    Georgios S. Polymeris, Valeria Giannoulatou, Eren Şahiner & Niyazi Meriç

  3. Department of Geography, Marmara University, 25240, İstanbul, Turkey

    Atilla Karataş

  4. Department of Jewellery Engineering, Istanbul Commerce University, 34840, Istanbul, Turkey

    H. Haluk Selim

  5. Department of Geography, Ardahan University, 75000, Ardahan, Turkey

    Mustafa Karabıyıkoğlu

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Erginal, A.E., Polymeris, G.S., Karataş, A. et al. Raised braided stream gravels on Mount Keldağ, Hatay (Eastern Mediterranean coast, Turkey): implications of transformation to beachrock and ensuing tectonic uplift. Med. Geosc. Rev. 1, 45–53 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42990-019-00006-4

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