TAMAM : Turkish-American MArmara Multichannel

A project using multichannel seismic reflection data collected on a research cruise in the Marmara Sea to study the earthquake hazard and basin growth along a continental transform fault

Michael S. Steckler, Leonardo Seeber John Diebold Donna Shillington
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA

Christopher Sorlien
Institute for Crustal Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA USA

Günay Çifçi, Derman Dondurur
Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology, Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey

Emin Demirbağ, Caner İmren, Hulya, Kurt
Department of Geophysical Engineering, İstanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey

 Bathymetric map of the Marmara Sea showing the seismic profiles collected during the TAMAM cruise on the R/V K. Piri Reis in July 2008

 

This project was funded by the U.S National Science Foundation and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory