Reply to Comment on “The timing and evolution of the post-glacial transgression across the Sea of

Archimer Marine Geology Archive Institutionnelle de l’Ifremer September 2008, Volume 254, Issues 3-4, Pages 230-236 http://www.ifremer.fr/docelec/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2008.04.005 © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Reply to Comment on “The timing and evolution of the post-glacial transgression across the Sea of Marmara shelf south of Istanbul” by Hiscott et al., Marine Geology 248, 228–236 a, b a c a dK.K. Eriş *, W.B.F. Ryan , M.N. Ça ğatay , G. Lericolais , Ü. Sancar , G. Menot and E. dBard a Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Mines, Emcol, Geology Department Ayaza ğa, Istanbul Turkey b Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA c Laboratoire de Environnements Sedimentaires, IFREMER, France d Collège de France, CEREGE, UMR-6635, France *: Corresponding author : K.K. Eri ş, email address : keris@itu.edu.tr Abstract: In their comment Hiscott and co-authors adhere rigidly to ages and sources for sedimentary units in the subsurface of the Marmara shelf that they have previously reported in their publications from 2002 through 2007. This adherence is in spite of a superior age-depth model from our 13 m-long sediment core that penetrated deeply into the deposits under consideration and in disregard to the results of subsequent more-detailed and full-coverage mapping of the region under scrutiny. The age revisions are dismissed by the authors of the comment as ...