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Timestamp: 2019-04-20 03:07:21+00:00

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My major research interests are a) oil and gas exploration in sedimentary basins; and b) structural styles formed in contractional, extensional and strike-slip terranes. Since 1986, my research involved in determining oil and gas potential of sedimentary basins in Oklahoma and in Turkey. Over the years, my graduate students and I worked on several projects related to petroleum exploration. These projects were mostly located in the Arkoma Foreland Basin of southern Oklahoma and sedimentary basins in southeastern and central Turkey. In the Arkoma Basin our work involved determining a) structural geometry and evolution of thrust faulting through construction of balanced structural cross-sections; and b) the role of thrust faults in gas accumulation in the Pennsylvanian reservoir rocks of the Arkoma Basin.
I have been conducting research in structural geology using a combination of field, seismic, experimental, computer-based, and theoretical approaches. Specifically, my current major research interests are a) structural geology and tectonics of foreland basins; b) geometry and origin of rock fractures; c) extensional tectonics; and d) active tectonics.
Since 1982, I have been working on structural geology and tectonic evolution of the Arkoma Foreland Basin of the Ouachita fold-thrust belt in Oklahoma and Arkansas. This research is directed to oil and gas exploration in Foreland Basins.
Since 2005, I have been conducting research on quantifying the fracture pattern in different outcrops of the Woodford shale in southern Oklahoma for a better understanding of fluid flow and permeability.
Since my Ph.D. thesis at Pennsylvania State University, I have been conducting field-oriented geologic research in extensional tectonics. My research concentrated in the southern Basin and Range of the western USA in the 1980s and 1990s. Since 1999, I have been conducting extensional tectonics research in western Turkey.
Extensional structural features in the Basins and Ranges in the USA and in western Turkey are active and capable of producing large earthquakes. Therefore my work in these regions also is related to determining earthquake potential of extended terrains.
Sahai, S., and Çemen, I., 2008, Enhanced Structural Interpretation in the Arkoma Basin with Seismic Attributes, in Suneson, N. H., Slatt, R.,and Çemen, I., (eds.) Stratigraphic and structural evolution of the Ouachita Mountains and Arkoma Basin, southeastern Oklahoma and west-central Arkansas: Applications to petroleum exploration: 2004 field symposium. Technical papers: Oklahoma Geological Survey Circular 112B, p. 25-30.
Zhu, L., Mitchell, B., Akyol N., Çemen, I., and Kekovali, K., 2006, Crustal Thickness Variation in the Aegean Region and its Implications to Extension of Continental Crust; Journal of Geophysical Research,v. 111, B01301, doi:10.1029/2005JB003770.
Çemen, I., Tekeli, O, Seyitoglu, G., and Isik, V., 2005, Are Turtleback fault surfaces common structural elements of highly extended terranes? Earth-Science Reviews, v. 73, p. 139 -148.
Catlos, E. J., and Çemen, I., 2005, Monazite ages and rapid exhumation of the Menderes Massif, western Turkey, International Journal of Earth Science, (Geol Rundsch) v. 94, p. 204-217.
Seyitoglu, G., Tekeli, O., Çemen, I., Sen S., and Isik, V., 2002, The role of the flexural rotation/rolling hinge model in the tectonic evolution of the Alasehir graben, western Turkey. Geological Magazine, v. 139, no. 1, p. 15-26.
Çemen, I., Sagnak, A., and Akthar, S., 2001, Geometry of the Triangle Zone and Duplex Structure in the Wilburton Gas Field Area of the Arkoma Basin, Southeastern Oklahoma; Oklahoma Geological Survey, Circular, 104, p. 87-98.
Çemen, I., Evans, J., and Sagnak, A., 2001, Eastern Continuation of the Wilburton Triangle Zone in the Red Oak Gas Field Area, Frontal Ouachitas-Arkoma Basin Transition Zone, Southeastern Oklahoma; in Johnson, K. S., and Merriam, D. F. (eds.), Petroleum systems of sedimentary basins in the southern midcontinent, 2000 symposium: Oklahoma Geological Survey, Circular, 106, p. 81-95.
Çemen, I., Gokten, E., Varol., B., Kilic, R., Ozaksoy, V., Emre, C., and Pinar, A., 2000, Turkish Earthquakes Reveal Dynamics of Fracturing along a Major Strike-Slip Fault Zone; EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, v. 81, No. 28, p. 309 and 313.
Seyitoglu, G., Çemen, I., and Tekeli O, 2000, Extensional folding in the Alasehir Graben, West Anatolia, Turkey, Journal of the Geological Society of London , v. 157, p.1097-1100.
Çemen, I., Goncuoglu, C., Dirik, K., 1999, Structural Evolution of the Tuzgolu Basin in Central Anatolia, Turkey; Journal of Geology, v. 107, no. 6, p. 693-706.
Çemen, I., Wright, L. A., and Prave T., 1999, Stratigraphy and tectonic implications of the latest Oligocene and Early Miocene sedimentary succession, southernmost Funeral Mountains, Death Valley, region, California; in Wright, L. A., and Troxel, B.W., eds.,Cenozoic Basins of the Death Valley region:Geological Society of America Special Paper, no. 333, p. 65-86.
Wright, L. A., Green, R. C., Çemen, I., Johnson, F. C., and Prave, T. R., 1999, Tectono-stratigraphic development of the Miocene-Pliocene Furnace Creek Basin and related features, Death Valley region, California; in Wright, L. A., and Troxel, B.W., eds., Cenozoic Basins of the Death Valley region:Geological Society of America Special Paper, no. 333, p. 87-114.
Pybas, K., Çemen, I., and Al-Shaieb, Z., 1995, The Collings Ranch Conglomerate of the Oklahoma Arbuckles: Its Origin and Tectonic Significance; Oklahoma Geological Survey, Circular, 97, p. 132 – 143.
Çemen, I., and Wright, L. A., 1990, Effect of Cenozoic extension on Mesozoic thrust surfaces in the central and southern Funeral Mountains, Death Valley, California; in Wernicke, Brian, (ed.) Basin and Range Extensional Tectonics near the Latitude of Las Vegas, Nevada, Geological Society of America Memoir, No. 176, Ch. 14, p. 305 – 316.
Perincek, D., and Çemen, I., 1990, The structural relationship between the East Anatolian and Dead Sea fault zones in southeastern Turkey; Tectonophysics, v. 172, p.331 – 340.
Çemen, I., 1989, Near-surface expression of the eastern part of the San Cayetano fault: A potentially active thrust fault in the California Transverse Ranges; Journal of Geophysical Research- Solid Earth and Planets, v. 94, no. B7, p. 9665 – 9677.
Çemen, I., Wright, L. A., Drake, R., and Johnson, F. C., 1985, Cenozoic sedimentation and sequence of deformational events at southern end of Furnace Creek strike-slip fault zone, Death Valley region, California: in Biddle, K. T., and Christie-Blick, N., (eds.) Strike-slip Deformation and Basin Formation;Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication, no. 37, p. 127 – 141.

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