Turkey

İsmail Omer Yılmaz

Professor (Middle East Technical University
Department of Geological Engineering,
Middle East Technical University,
06800, Cankaya, Ankara, Turkey
E-mail: ioyilmaz@metu.edu.tr

Education

B. Sc., Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East technical University, 1994
M. Sc., Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East technical University, 1997
Ph. D. Department of Geological Engineering, Middle East technical University, 2002

Research Interest

• Platform Carbonates
• Cretaceous Black Shales and Oceanic Events
• Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography
• Sedimentology and sedimentary geochemistry (stable isotopes and trace elements)
• Cyclostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy

Current Research Projects

• Sedimentology, Paleoecology and facies properties of the upper Cretaceous sucessions, SE Anatolian region, Turkey: a paleobiogeographic correlation of the Arabian platform
• Reservoir property of middle-upper Cretaceous platform-slope carbonates/clastics and source rock potential of Cretaceous pelagic successions in Indus basin (Pakistan) and Turkey (Pontides)
• Paleoclimatic analysis from speleothems (central and western Anatolia) and coral skeletons (Dardanelle strait, Marmara Sea, NW Turkey)

Main publications

• Stable isotope evidence for meter-scale sea level changes in lower Cretaceous inner platform and pelagic carbonate successions of Turkey
• Cyclic palaeokarst surfaces in Aptian peritidal carbonate successions (Taurides, southwest Turkey): internal structure and response to mid-Aptian sea-level fall
• Cenomanian – Turonian Oceanic Anoxic Event (OAE2) in the Sakarya Zone, northwestern Turkey: Sedimentological, cyclostratigraphic, and geochemical records
• The first record of the “Mid-Barremian” Oceanic Anoxic Event and the Late Hauterivian platform drowning of the Bilecik platform, Sakarya Zone, western Turkey
• Short-term sea-level changes and greenhouse climate - the Cretaceous perspective
• Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous depositional environments and evolution of the Bilecik (Sakarya Zone) and Tauride carbonate platforms, Turkey
• An approach to paleoclimatic conditions for Devonian (upper Lochkovian and middle Givetian) ironstone formation, NW Anatolian carbonate Platform
• The upper Coniacian to upper Santonian drowned Arabian carbonate platform, the Mardin-Mazidag area, SE Turkey: Sedimentological, stratigraphic, and ichthyofaunal records