Field Trip Calendar

The field camp will be held from 22 June 2019 to 5 July 2019. Departures will be daily at 8:30 from the Engineering Faculty parking area.

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

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

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 complete GPS that allows to navigate and manage waypoints, tracks and routes.
Download for Android
Download for Iphone not available.

View Ranger – Hike, Ride or Walk
View Ranger is an augmented reality application that provides downloadable route guides, free worldwide maps, information on POI (Points Of Interest) and GPS navigation features.s and routes.
Download for Android
Download for Iphone

Download here the GPX file for POI’s of the Kafaca-Yeşilyurt area.

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! 

 – Guideline for documents to submit at the end of the field camp: Get PDF

Sample Files

– Guideline how to write a technical report (in Turkish):  Get PDF

Maps

– 1/25.000 scale topographic maps of the Yeşilyurt – Kafaca area.

– 1/25.000 scale topographic contours of the Yeşilyurt – Kafaca area. Make sure the contours fit precisely to your basemap 

– 1/10.000 scale topographic maps of the Yeşilyurt – Kafaca area.