Duman et al. (2020) report that Event E3 in the Elbeyli Trench (T6) is dated to approximately 1035–1215 CE (2σ calibrated radiocarbon age range) and suggest that it may correlate with the 1114/5 Mamistra and Marash earthquakes. Event E3 was identified from deformation associated with a wedge, or fissure fill, that formed between fault splays F3 and F5. Duman et al. (2020) report that "two samples of this fissure fill material were dated and yielded ages of AD 775 to 975, and AD 1035–1215." They interpret the approximately 250-year discrepancy between these samples as reflecting the incorporation of organic material of different ages that had been reworked prior to deposition within the fissure fill. On this basis, they infer the timing of Event E3 from the younger and presumably less reworked AD 1035–1215 sample. Fault motion associated with this event was described as normal dip-slip faulting. Duman et al. (2020) do not report recognizing a correlating expression of this event in any of the other Sürgü–Misis trenches.
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Figure 3
Locations of paleoseismic trench sites on four segments of the Sürgü–Misis fault (SMF) system. Faults are simplified from Duman and Emre (2013).
- Thick red and blue lines indicate north strand, which is referred to as the SMF system
- The red lines are the western segments of the SMF system, on which we completed paleoseismological investigations at seven trench sites
- Thick purple lines show the south strand of the East Anatolian fault zone
- T1 to T7 numbered trench sites
- MFS Misis fault segment
- KFS Karataş fault segment
- YFS Yumurtalık fault segment
- DİFZ Düziçi–İskenderun fault zone
- AFS Amanos fault segment
- YEFS Yesemek fault segment
- AFFS Afrin fault segment
- NFZ Narlı fault zone
- MFZ Maraş fault zone
- EFZ Engizek fault zone
- ÇOFS Çokak fault segment
- SAFS Savrun fault segment
- TFS Toprakkale fault segment
- ÇFS Çardak fault segment
- SFS Sürgü fault segment
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Photomosaic and log of the south wall of Elbeyli trench T6, showing stratigraphy, fault splays, 14C sample locations, and inferred event horizons. This trench was excavated on the northern section of the Düziçi segment of the Düziçi–İskenderun fault zone
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