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  1. Miocene to Quaternary Tectonostratigraphic Evolution of the Northern Section of the Burdur‐Fethiye Shear Zone, South‐Western Türkiye

    Article • Geological Journal, September 2026, Wiley

    Gürsel Sunal

  2. Pedo-geological assessment of nickel distribution in extensively cultivated soils by total and residual fraction concentrations: (Northwest Türkiye)

    Article • Environmental Research Communications, April 2026, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Gürsel Sunal

  3. Thermal histories of Cenozoic southern Marmara granitoids from emplacement to exhumation: Implications for tectono-thermal evolution of NW Anatolia (Türkiye)

    Article • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, January 2026, Elsevier

    Gürsel Sunal

  4. A new technique mapping submerged beachrocks using low-altitude UAV photogrammetry, the Altınova region, northern coast of the Sea of Marmara (NW Türkiye)

    Article • Quaternary International, December 2024, Elsevier

    Gürsel Sunal

  5. Late Holocene submerged beachrocks in the Sea of Marmara (Tekirdağ-Altınova, NW Türkiye): Revealing the tectonic uplift rate through radiocarbon dating

    Article • Quaternary International, October 2024, Elsevier

    Gürsel Sunal

  6. On the nature of the Cimmerian Continent

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, December 2023, Elsevier

    Gürsel Sunal

  7. Late Cretaceous arc magmatism in the Western Pontides (Turkey) – temporal and chemical changes

    Article • International Geology Review, June 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Gürsel Sunal

  8. Paleo-exhumation histories of the Sakarya and the Istanbul Zones of the Western Pontides, the Almacık Block and its surroundings, NW Turkey

    Article • International Geology Review, June 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Gürsel Sunal

  9. The Altaids: A review of twenty-five years of knowledge accumulation

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, May 2022, Elsevier

    Gürsel Sunal

  10. The Saharides: Turkic-type orogeny in Afro-Arabia

    Article • International Journal of Earth Sciences, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gürsel Sunal

  11. Miocene uplift and exhumation history of northwestern Anatolia (Turkey): Implications from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronology of syn-extensional plutons

    Article • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, June 2021, Elsevier

    Gürsel Sunal

  12. Reconstructing orogens without biostratigraphy: The Saharides and continental growth during the final assembly of Gondwana-Land

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Gürsel Sunal

  13. Evaluation of the Plio-Quaternary tectonic stress regime from fault kinematic analysis in the lake Van Basin (Eastern Anatolia)

    Article • Journal of Structural Geology, November 2020, Elsevier

    Gürsel Sunal

  14. Uplift of Anatolia

    Article • TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, July 2020, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

    Gürsel Sunal

  15. İzmir‐Ankara Suture as a Triassic to Cretaceous Plate Boundary—Data From Central Anatolia

    Article • Tectonics, May 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Gürsel Sunal

  16. Quaternary evolution of the Suluova Basin: implications on tectonics and palaeonvironments of the Central North Anatolian Shear Zone

    Article • Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, November 2019, Canadian Science Publishing

    Gürsel Sunal

  17. Reconstructing the deformation of the North Anatolian Fault Zone through restoring the Oligo–Miocene exhumation pattern of the Almacık Block (northwestern Turkey) based on the apatite (U–Th)/He ages

    Article • Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, November 2019, Canadian Science Publishing

    Gürsel Sunal

  18. The phanerozoic palaeotectonics of Turkey. Part I: an inventory

    Article • Mediterranean Geoscience Reviews, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Gürsel Sunal

  19. The Early Eocene Ekmekçi granodiorite porphyry in the Karacabey region(Sakarya Zone, NW Turkey)

    Article • TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, July 2019, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

    Gürsel Sunal

  20. A new chronostratigraphy (40Ar-39Ar and U-Pb dating) for the middle section of the Burdur-Fethiye Shear Zone, SW Turkey (eastern Mediterranean)

    Article • TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, September 2018, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

    Gürsel Sunal

  21. Metamorphism, magmatism, and exhumation history of the Tavşanlı Zone, NW Turkey: new petrological constraints

    Article • TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, July 2018, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

    Gürsel Sunal

  22. The Tectonics of the Altaids: Crustal Growth During the Construction of the Continental Lithosphere of Central Asia Between ∼750 and ∼130 Ma Ago

    Article • Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, May 2018, Annual Reviews

    Gürsel Sunal

  23. A middle Permian ophiolite fragment in Late Triassic greenschist- to blueschist-facies rocks in NW Turkey: An earlier pulse of suprasubduction-zone ophiolite formation in the Tethyan belt

    Article • Lithos, February 2018, Elsevier

    Gürsel Sunal

  24. The Strandja Massif and the İstanbul Zone were once parts of the same palaeotectonic unit: new data from Triassic detrital zircons

    Article • Geodinamica Acta, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Gürsel Sunal

  25. PALAEO-TETHYAN MARGIN OF GONDWANA-LAND WAS AN EXTENSIONAL ARC

    Article • January 2018, Geological Society of America

    Gürsel Sunal

  26. Geochemical and Petrographic Analysis of Late Bronze Age Cypriot Ceramics (White Slip I and II and Monochrome) from Tell Atchana/Alalakh (Hatay) in the Amuq Valley

    Article • Archaeometry, November 2017, Wiley

    Gürsel Sunal, Sinem Hacıosmanoğlu, Gubaz Kibaroglu

  27. The Thrace Basin and the Black Sea: the Eocene–Oligocene marine connection

    Article • Geological Magazine, September 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Aral I Okay, Gürsel Sunal

  28. Geological evolution of the Central Pontides

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, September 2017, Geological Society

    Gürsel Sunal

  29. Geochemical characterization of clay deposits in the Amuq Valley (Southern Turkey) and the implications for archaeometric study of ancient ceramics

    Article • Applied Clay Science, June 2017, Elsevier

    Gubaz Kibaroglu, Gürsel Sunal

  30. Provenance of a large Lower Cretaceous turbidite submarine fan complex on the active Laurasian margin: Central Pontides, northern Turkey

    Article • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, February 2017, Elsevier

    Gürsel Sunal

  31. Precambrian to Early Cretaceous rocks of the Strandja Massif (NW Turkey); evolution of a long lasting magmatic arc

    Article • Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, August 2016, Canadian Science Publishing

    Professor Boris Natalin, Gürsel Sunal

  32. Distributed transpressive continental deformation: The Varto Fault Zone, eastern Turkey

    Article • Tectonophysics, October 2015, Elsevier

    Gürsel Sunal

  33. Neoproterozoic continental arc volcanism at the northern edge of the Arabian Plate, SE Turkey

    Article • Precambrian Research, March 2015, Elsevier

    Gürsel Sunal

  34. Triassic warm subduction in northeast Turkey: Evidence from the Ağvanis metamorphic rocks

    Article • Island Arc, May 2014, Wiley

    Gürsel Sunal

  35. Low-pressure-high-temperature metamorphism during extension in a Jurassic magmatic arc, Central Pontides, Turkey

    Article • Journal of Metamorphic Geology, December 2013, Wiley

    Gürsel Sunal

  36. Early Cretaceous sedimentation and orogeny on the active margin of Eurasia: Southern Central Pontides, Turkey

    Article • Tectonics, September 2013, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Gürsel Sunal

  37. First U–Pb SHRIMP zircon and 40Ar/39Ar ages of metarhyolites from the Afyon–Bolkardag Zone, SW Turkey: Implications for the rifting and closure of the Neo-Tethys

    Article • Gondwana Research, July 2013, Elsevier

    Gürsel Sunal

  38. Devonian magmatism in the western Sakarya Zone, Karacabey region, NW Turkey

    Article • Geodinamica Acta, December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Gürsel Sunal

  39. Eocene Granitic Magmatism in NW Anatolia (Turkey) revisited: New implications from comparative zircon SHRIMP U–Pb and 40Ar–39Ar geochronology and isotope geochemistry on magma genesis and emplacement

    Article • Lithos, December 2012, Elsevier

    Gürsel Sunal

  40. Estimation of the pre-North Anatolian Fault Zone pseudo-paleo-topography: A key to determining the cumulative offset of major post-collisional strike-slip faults

    Article • Geomorphology, July 2012, Elsevier

    Mehmet Korhan Erturac, Gürsel Sunal

  41. Spatial, temporal and geochemical evolution of Oligo–Miocene granitoid magmatism in western Anatolia, Turkey

    Article • Gondwana Research, May 2012, Elsevier

    Gürsel Sunal

  42. Tectonics of the Strandja Massif, NW Turkey: History of a Long-Lived Arc at the Northern Margin of Palaeo-Tethys

    Article • TURKISH JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES, January 2012, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK-ULAKBIM) - DIGITAL COMMONS JOURNALS

    Gürsel Sunal

  43. Metamorphism and diachronous cooling in a contractional orogen: the Strandja Massif, NW Turkey

    Article • Geological Magazine, January 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Gürsel Sunal

  44. Paleotectonic Position of the Strandja Massif and Surrounding Continental Blocks Based on Zircon Pb-Pb Age Studies

    Article • International Geology Review, June 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Gürsel Sunal

  45. Paleozoic magmatic events in the Strandja Massif, NW Turkey

    Article • Geodinamica Acta, October 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Gürsel Sunal

  46. Structural modification of expandable polystyrene. II. Copolymerization with silicone acrylate

    Article • Journal of Applied Polymer Science, April 2006, Wiley

    Gürsel Sunal

  47. Structural modification of expandable polystyrene. I. Copolymerization with α‐methylstyrene

    Article • Journal of Applied Polymer Science, August 2003, Wiley

    Gürsel Sunal

  48. Palaeostress analysis of Tertiary post-collisional structures in the Western Pontides, northern Turkey

    Article • Geological Magazine, May 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Gürsel Sunal

  49. Surface Rupture and Slip Distribution of the 12 November 1999 Duzce Earthquake (M 7.1), North Anatolian Fault, Bolu, Turkey

    Article • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, February 2002, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Gürsel Sunal

  50. The Surface Rupture and Slip Distribution of the 17 August 1999 Izmit Earthquake (M 7.4), North Anatolian Fault

    Article • Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, February 2002, Seismological Society of America (SSA)

    Gürsel Sunal