Turkey as seen by Faults and Slickensides

Turkey had a Killer earthquake.usgs.gov 6.7M this week, and I find that’s in the east rather than West Turkey where it’s rising for the Anatolian plateau Ap. Colorado plateau Cp has slickensides as shown, and you can determine its Rotation (CCW-rising for Cp) when viewing its edge at the Hurricane fault Hf- where the uplifting face has striations / as shown:these are seen for Turkey’s North Anatolia fault in the second and third photo from the literature. Turkey is rising, as shown at Ephesus- where the Menderes River (root for Meander) which was a seaport, and is now 5 km inland. 


 Field Geologists have placed movement arrows on the above slicks- showing that the face Rises for an uplift as seen looking at it. One always looks at the rising face, regardless of its location. Strike-slip fault is shown in next photo- where the rise is on the right with Counter Clockwise CCW rotation:

Turkey has jerks at the west peninsula, since there’s an archipelago of mostly subsea volcanic craters; the most memorable is Santorini killing in Greek time BC! Polumbo has recently belched in 1950, and it’s in the arc of killers which also raise the space between Greece and Turkey- causing the most frequent jerks. However this weeks’ 6.7M was in the East, and likely due to sinking due to petroleum withdrawal at the Batman area. I have visited there via the Oriental Express- which is unavailable now. We’ll look at Turkey broadly, so as to find the impetus of rising for it and the Colorado plateau. Assertions of “mantle plumes” cannot be proven, and the 39-40 million year event due to the offshore Philippines largest crater will be investigated. 



Tomorrow there’s an Alignment of planets and the waxing Moon (New 24 January), and it may augment the attraction of Earth with the St. Lucia dormant Piton hot spring to create a volcanodiscovery.com

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