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Relative Tectonic Activity Assessment Of Kütahya Graben (Western Anatolia): Insights From Geomorphic Indices, Zeynep Kezer, Erman Özsayin

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

Western Anatolia is known as one of the most seismically active regions in the world, consistent with earthquakes having a magnitude >6.0. The deformation in the region is predominantly controlled by normal faults, which play significant role on the morphological features as well as depositional processes in related grabens. WNW-trending Kütahya Graben is located at the northeastern part of this province and bounded by several N- and S-dipping active normal fault segments. This study aims to investigate the relative tectonic activity among the fault segments of the Kütahya Graben using geomorphic indices. The analyses of this study include mountain-front sinuosity …