Turkey Trenching Pics

Turkey Trenching Pics

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	Slumping and compaction of deltaic sediments caused this road to be submerged along the former waterfront in Gölcük.
	Building damage in Gölcük.
	More damage in Gölcük. The now-empty lot in front of the damaged building straddles the fault.
	The first excavation of our trench across the fault near Gölcük.
	The normal fault scarp from August 1999 near Gölcük, several meters from our trench. The near side of the fault dropped 1.8 meters locally during the earthquake.
	Another view of the normal fault scarp near Gölcük.
	Our trench near Gölcük. After the earthquake, the near side of the fault was only 1-2 meters above sea level, and the water table was only tens of centimeters below the ground surface, on the near side. As you can see, our trench was a little wet. :-)
	One of the few days the pump actually worked. :-)
	Important Turkish vocabulary: Sunflower seeds = Çikadik Pronounced: chick-a-dick (... or was that check-ya-dick?)
	Opening trenches at the Saros site.
	A view of the fault in the main trench at Saros. Saros is west of the Sea of Marmara and the fault here did not rupture in 1999. It is a likely candidate for an earthquake in the near geologic future. As along most of the fault, the sense of slip here is predominantly right-lateral strike-slip.
	Another view of the fault in the main trench at Saros.
	3-D trenches at Saros.
	That's not a beer.... I'll show you a beer!
	A posed picture in the fading sun, the last evening at Saros. After many days of hard work, we were finally done. It was now time to return to our little swimming hole / cesspool near Gölcük.
	Saros and Gölcük weren't too far away ... they were only a continent apart.
	The price of gas in Turkey. But that's alright. Turkish lira are worth less than Monopoly money anyway.
	Back at Gölcük, after digging a bit deeper.
	Waiting for the pump to drain our trench. A daily ritual at this site.
	Working ...
	and working ...
	and working ...
	and working some more....
	Pump duty, one of the more popular jobs in Gölcük. Since water was constantly flowing into the trench, the pump had to be run constantly during the day. Pump duty involved keeping the head in water, and keeping the mud, twigs, and frogs out. That day, I got the water level lower than it had been in the previous two weeks.
	We decided to scrape back one wall in the fault zone and log it again, to help us understand what was happening in the stratigraphy.
	The fault near the trench near Gölcük. Three wierdos in the foreground for scale. We had finally finished our work here and closed the trench, and we were off to join the others at Köseköy.
	The trench at Köseköy.
	Several strands of the fault are visible in the trench at Köseköy. We appeared to have small-scale slip partitioning at this location: the far strand appeared to have a significant normal component, whereas the closer strand appeared to be predominantly right-lateral.
	One strand of the fault in the trench at Köseköy. This is the one with some normal component.
	Surface expression of the August 1999 rupture of the fault at Köseköy, and the trench we dug across it. This shot offers a great perspective on the normal and strike-slip strands of the fault, and how their surface expressions are related to their stratigraphic expressions.
	An offset row of trees. Before the August 1999 earthquake, the row of trees was aligned perfectly.