The Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences is published electronically 6 times a year by the Scientific and Technological ResearchCouncil of Turkey (TBTAK). It is an international English-language journal for the publication of significant original recentresearch in a wide spectrum of topics in the earth sciences, such as geology, structural geology, tectonics, sedimentology,geochemistry, geochronology, paleontology, igneous and metamorphic petrology, mineralogy, biostratigraphy, geophysics,geomorphology, paleoecology and oceanography, and mineral deposits. Contribution is open to researchers of all nationalities.