HOLOCENE RAISED SHORELINES ON THE HATAY COASTS (TURKEY) - PALEOECOLOGICAL AND TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS

Abstract

The marks of two emerged shorelines (superimposed erosional notches, and in-situ bioconstructed rims with the vermetid Dendropoma) on both sides of the Orontes Delta, near the border between Turkey and Syria, are interpreted as representing the occurrence of two rapid uplifts during the late Holocene rather than representing eustatic fluctuations of climatic origin as claimed by previous authors in other areas of the eastern Mediterranean.