Prof. Dr. Derya Gürer – Douwe J.J. van Hinsbergen

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2013-2017

PhD project: “Subduction evolution in the Anatolian region: the rise, demise, and fate of the Anadolu Plate”

Supervisors: Dr. Douwe van Hinsbergen, Prof. Wim Spakman

Current position: Professor at the University of Heidelberg, Germany

Funding: ERC Starting Grant to DJJvH (Subduction Initiation reconstructed from Neotethyan Kinematics (SINK))

Personal website

Publications:

van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Gürer, D., Koç, A., Lom, N., submitted, Shortening and extrusion in the East Anatolian Plateau: how was Neogene Arabia-Europe convergence tectonically accommodated?, Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Gürer, D., Granot, R., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2022, Plate tectonic chain reaction revealed by noise in the Cretaceous Quiet Zone, Nature Geoscience 15, 233-239
van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Steinberger, B., Guilmette, C., Maffione, M.*, Gürer, D.**, Peters, K.**, Plunder, A.V.*, McPhee, P.J.**, Gaina, C., Advokaat, E.L.*, Vissers, R.L.M., and Spakman, W., 2021, A record of plume-induced plate rotation triggering subduction initiation, Nature Geoscience 14, 626-630
van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Torsvik, T.H., Schmid, S.M., Maţenco, L.C., Maffione, M., Vissers, R.L.M., Gürer, D., and Spakman, W., 2020, Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic [invited], Gondwana Research 81, p. 79-229
Guilmette, C., Smit, M.A., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Gürer, D.**, Corfu, F., Charette, B., Maffione, M.*, Rabeau, O., and Savard, D., 2018, Forced subduction initiation recorded in the sole and crust of the Semail ophiolite, Oman, Nature Geoscience 11, p. 688-695
Gürer, D.**, and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2019, Diachronous demise of the Neotethys Ocean as a driver for non-cylindrical orogenesis in Anatolia, Tectonophysics 760, 95-106
Gürer, D.**, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Özkaptan, M., Creton, I.****, Koymans, M.R.***, Cascella, A., and Langereis, C.G., 2018, Paleomagnetic constraints on the timing and distribution of Cenozoic rotations in Central and Eastern Anatolia, Solid Earth 9, p. 295-322
van der Boon, A., van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Rezaeian, M., Gürer, D.**, Honarmand, M., Pastor-Galán, D., Krijgsman, W., and Langereis, C.G., 2018, Quantifying Arabia-Eurasia convergence accommodated in the Greater Caucasus by paleomagnetic reconstruction, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 482, p. 454-469
Gürer, D.**, Plunder, A.*, Kirst, F., Corfu, F., Schmid, S.M., and van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., 2018, A long-lived Late Cretaceous-Early Eocene extensional province in Anatolia? Structural evidence from the Ivriz Detachment, southern central Turkey, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 481, p. 111-124
Gürer, D.**, van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Maţenco, L, Corfu, F., Cascella, A., 2016, Kinematics of a former oceanic plate of the Neotethys revealed by deformation in the Ulukışla basin (Turkey), Tectonics 35, p. 2385-2416
van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Maffione, M.*, Plunder, A.*, Kaykmakcı, N., Ganerød, M., Hendriks, B.W.H., Corfu, F., Gürer, D.**, de Gelder, G.I.N.O.***, Peters, K.**, McPhee, P.J.**, Brouwer, F.M., Advokaat, E.L.*, and Vissers, R.L.M., 2016, Tectonic evolution and paleogeography of the Kırşehir Block and the Central Anatolian Ophiolites, Turkey, Tectonics 35, p. 983-1014
van Hinsbergen, D.J.J., Peters, K.**, Maffione, M.*, Spakman, W., Guilmette, C., Thieulot, C., Plümper, O.P., Gürer, D.**, Brouwer, F.M., Aldanmaz, E., and Kaymakci, N., 2015, Dynamics of intra-oceanic subduction initiation: 2. Suprasubduction zone ophiolite formation and metamorphic sole exhumation in context of absolute plate motions, Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 16, p. 1771-1785

Outreach:

Fieldwork

MSc student supervision

Mathijs Koymans