Field Trip Calendar

Tools

Students are expected to bring their course materials on each trip. Besides if you have a smartphone, install the below mentioned applications on your device.

Course materials:

• Field notebook
• Colour Pencils (set of 12)
• Ruler (min 30cm in length)
• Triangle protractor
• 2 x Pencil (HB, B)
• Needle-point pencil (≤ 0.5)
• Soft rubber/eraser
• Pencil sharpener
• Transparent papers (10 pages)
• Squared paper (millimetric, 10 pages)
• Clipboard with cover

Smartphone Apps

Field Move Clino
FieldMove Clino is a digital compass-clinometer for data capture on your Android phone, designed for simplicity in the field, and optimized to use the device’s GPS location and orientation sensors. 
Download for Android
Download for Iphone

GPS Essentials
GPS Essentials is a GPS application with functions such as navigation, managing waypoints, recording tracks and routes etc.
Download for Android
Download for Iphone not available.

Familiy Locator Life360
With Family Locator we will be able to see each other’s locations, send messages and make emergency calls in the field. This app is especially useful during the Field Geological Mapping camp.
Download for Android
Download for Iphone

Windows Applications

Canon Photo Stich
Canon Photo Stich is a Windows freeware that can be used to create panoramic images from multiple photographs. You can use to it create photo mosaics of geological outcrops. Requires no installion. Extract the zip file to a folder and run “stich.exe”.
Download for Windows
How to use Canon Photo Stich? Click here

Recommended Books

Lisle, R.J., 2004, Geological Structures and Maps, Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann.

Lisle, R.J., Brabham, P., and Barnes, J., 2011, Basic Geological Mapping, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 

McClay, K.R., 1999, The Mapping of Geological Structures, John Wiley and Sons Ltd. 

Tucker, M.E., 1991, The Field Description of Sedimentary Rocks, Wiley-Blackwell.

Fry, N., 2013, The Field Description of Metamorphic Rocks, Wiley.

Jerram, D., and Petford, N., 2011, The Field Description of Igneous Rocks, Wiley.

Publications

Aktimur, H.T., Sarıaslan, M.M., Sönmez, M., Keçer, M., Uysal, Ş., Özmutaf, M., 1996.Muğla ilinin (Merkez ilçe) arazi k ullanım potansiyeli MTA Etüd Raporu. (pdf)

Atalay, Z., 1980. Muğla – Yatağan ve Yakın Dolayı Karasal Neojen’inin Stratigrafi Araştırması. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Turkey 23, 3-99. (pdf)

Collins, A.S., and Robertson, A.H.F., 1999, Evolution of the Lycian Allochthon, western Turkey, as a north-facing Late Palaeozoic to Mesozoic rift and passive continental margin: Geological Journal, v. 34, p. 107-138. (pdf)

Erdoğan, B., and Güngör, T., 2004, The Problem of the Core – Cover Boundary of the Menderes Massif and an Emplacement Mechanism for Regionally Extensive Gneissic Granites , Western Anatolia ( Turkey ): Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences, v. 13, p. 15-36. (pdf)

Ersoy, Ş., 1990, Batı Toros (Likya) Naplarının Yapısal Öğelerinin ve Evriminin Analizi: Geological Engineering, p. 5-16. (pdf)

Gül, M., 2015, Occurrences of Chert in Jurassic-Cretaceous Calciturbidites (SW Turkey), Open Geosciences, Volume 7. (pdf)

Okay, A.I., 2008, Geology of Turkey: A Synopsis: Der ANSCHNITT, v. 21, p. 19-42. (pdf)

Rimmelé, G., Jolivet, L., Oberhänsli, R., and Goffé, B., 2003, Deformation history of the high-pressure Lycian Nappes and implications for tectonic evolution of SW Turkey: Tectonics, v. 22, p. (pdf)

Rimmelé, G., Oberhänsli, R., Goffé, B., Jolivet, L., Candan, O., & Çetinkaplan, M. (2003). First evidence of high-pressure metamorphism in the “Cover Series” of the southern Menderes Massif. Tectonic and metamorphic implications for the evolution of SW Turkey. Lithos, 71(1), 19–46. (pdf)

Whitney, D.L., and Bozkurt, E., 2002, Metamorphic history of the southern Menderes massif, western Turkey: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 114, p. 829-838. (pdf)

Lecture Notes

Under construction!

Web sources

– Here is a list of Geology Field Camps from around the world.

Safety

127 Hours

The movie “127 Hours” is an excellent example how easy it is to get in trouble in nature. You can find a full version of this movie on here on Youtube.

Here are some files that may be useful for you! 

Course material

Week 04 – Gökova Topographic map: Download  PDF
Week 07 – Çaybükü Topographic map: Download  PDF
Week 11-12 – Elmacık – Kavakköy Topographic map: Download PDF
Week 13-14 – Kurudere Topographic map: Download  1/10.000 scale PDF  or  1/25.000 scale PDF

Sample Files

• Here are sample files for the technical report and newsletter.

  Newsletter: Get the  PDF  or  WORD  version
  Technical Report: Get the   PDF  or WORD version

  Here is a guideline how to write a technical report (in Turkish):  Get PDF