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Mehmet Zeki Billor
Department of Geosciences
Research Fellow

Research Areas: Ore deposits. 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology and geodynamic evolution of Turkey. Structure, geochemistry and ore deposits of Alpine ophiolite in Turkey. Environmental Geology (Heavy metal contamination of water)

Office: 2100 Beard Eaves Coliseum

Address: 2050 Beard Eaves Coliseum
Auburn, AL 36849

Phone: (334) 844-8878

Fax: (334) 844-4295

Email: mzb0009@auburn.edu


Education
Ph.D., Geology, Çukurova University
1999
M.S., Geology, Çukurova University
1986
B.S., Geology, Çukurova University
1983


Professional Employment
Research Fellow IV, Auburn University
2017 - Present
Research Fellow III, Auburn University
2014 - 2017
Research Fellow II, Auburn University
2012 - 2014
Research Fellow I, Auburn University
2007 - 2012
Visiting Researcher, Auburn University
2005 - 2007
Assistant Professor, Çukurova University
1999 - 2005
Lecturer, Çukurova University
1995 - 1999


Research and Teaching Interests

Ore deposits. 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology and geodynamic evolution of Turkey. Structure, geochemistry and ore deposits of Alpine ophiolite in Turkey.  Environmental Geology  (Heavy metal contamination of water)


Selected Publications

  1. Şenel Özdamar, Mehmet Z.Billor, Gürsel Sunal, Fahri Esenli, Michael F. Roden  2013.  First U–Pb SHRIMP zircon and 40Ar/39Ar ages of metarhyolites from the Afyon–Bolkardag Zone, SW Turkey: Implications for the rifting and closure of the Neo-Tethys, Gondwana Resea. 24, 377-391.
  2. Ö. F. Çelik, M. Chiaradia, A. Marzoli, Z. Billor, R. Marschik (2013). The Eldivan ophiolite and volcanic rocks in the İzmir-Ankara-Erzincan suture zone, Northern Turkey: Geochronology, whole-rock geochemical and Nd-Sr-Pb isotope characteristics. Lithos, 172-173, 31-46.






Last updated: 01/25/2023