Dr Derya Guerer
Lecturer in Earth Sciences
School of the Environment
+61 7 344 31486
Steele Building (03), Room 258
My personal website: http://www.deryaguerer.com
Researcher biography
My research evolves around tectonics and the evolution of Earth's lithosphere at various spatio-temporal scales. I apply a combination of field-based methods with laboratory analyses (geochronology, paleomagnetism) to reconstruct subduction, accretion and exhumation. My extensive field experience spans a diverse range of tectonic settings, where I worked in sedimentary basins, metamorphic basement and magmatic terranes. I am particularly interested in relationships between orogenic/plate boundary events and far-field changes in plate motion. My focus regions are the Tethyan realm (spanning from Greece - Turkey - Iran - India) and the Southwest Pacific region (New Caledonia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea). I have participated in and led marine research expeditions on divergent plate margins in the Southern Ocean, Indian Ocean, and the Tasman Sea.
I joined the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at UQ in August 2018, after receiving my PhD from Utrecht University, The Netherlands (2017). I hold an MSc. in Geology from the University of Oslo, Norway (2012).
Journal Articles
Gallo, L. C., Domeier, M., Sapienza, F., Swanson‐Hysell, N. L., Vaes, B., Zhang, Y., Arnould, M., Eyster, A., Gürer, D., Király, Á., Robert, B., Rolf, T., Shephard, G. and van der Boon, A. (2023). Embracing Uncertainty to Resolve Polar Wander: A Case Study of Cenozoic North America. Geophysical Research Letters, 50 (11) e2023GL103436. doi: 10.1029/2023gl103436
Gürer, Derya, Hubbard, Judith and Bohon, Wendy (2023). Author Correction: Science on social media. Communications Earth & Environment, 4 (1) 186. doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-00853-y
Gürer, Derya, Hubbard, Judith and Bohon, Wendy (2023). Science on social media. Communications Earth and Environment, 4 (1) 148, 1-5. doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-00810-9
Uenzelmann-Neben, Gabriele, Bohaty, Steven M., Childress, Laurel B., Archontikis, Odysseas A., Batenburg, Sietske J., Bijl, Peter K., Burkett, Ashley M., Chanda, Pratyusha, Coenen, Jason J., Dallanave, Edoardo, Davidson, Peter C., Doiron, Kelsey E., Geldmacher, Jörg, Gürer, Derya, Haynes, Shannon J., Herrle, Jens O., Ichiyama, Yuji, Jana, Debadrita, Jones, Matthew M., Kato, Chie, Kulhanek, Denise K., Li, Juan, Liu, Jia, McManus, James, Yakutchik, Maryalice, Cawthra, Hayley C., Minakov, Alexander N., Penman, Donald E., Sprain, Courtney J. ... Westerhold, Thomas (2022). Agulhas Plateau cretaceous climate: drilling the Agulhas Plateau and Transkei Basin to reconstruct the Cretaceous–Paleogene tectonic and climatic evolution of the Southern Ocean basin. International Ocean Discovery Program: Preliminary Reports, 392. doi: 10.14379/iodp.pr.392.2022
Gerogiannis, Nikolaos, Chatzaras, Vasileios, Aravadinou, Eirini, Gürer, Derya and Xypolias, Paraskevas (2022). Microstructural and textural modification of columnar calcite under increasing shear strain (Evia Island, Greece). Journal of Structural Geology, 160 104632, 104632. doi: 10.1016/j.jsg.2022.104632
Gürer, Derya, Granot, Roi and van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J. (2022). Plate tectonic chain reaction revealed by noise in the Cretaceous quiet zone. Nature Geoscience, 15 (3), 233-239. doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-00893-7
Rosenbaum, Gideon, Rogers, Ashley, Gürer, Derya, Andjić, Goran and Allen, Charlotte M (2021). Origin of the intra‐oceanic Silverwood Block (New England Orogen, Australia): evidence from radiolarian biostratigraphy and detrital zircon petrochronology. Tectonics, 40 (12) e2021TC006920. doi: 10.1029/2021tc006920
Duarte, João C., Fakhraee, Mojtaba, Gürer, Derya, Kwiecien, Ola and Nichols, Claire I. O. (2021). A dynamic planet. Communications Earth and Environment, 2 (1) 181. doi: 10.1038/s43247-021-00246-z
van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Steinberger, Bernhard, Guilmette, Carl, Maffione, Marco, Gürer, Derya, Peters, Kalijn, Plunder, Alexis, McPhee, Peter J., Gaina, Carmen, Advokaat, Eldert L., Vissers, Reinoud L. M. and Spakman, Wim (2021). A record of plume-induced plate rotation triggering subduction initiation. Nature Geoscience, 14 (8), 626-630. doi: 10.1038/s41561-021-00780-7
Ward, Jack F., Rosenbaum, Gideon, Ubide, Teresa, Wu, Jonny, Caulfield, John T., Sandiford, Mike and Gürer, Derya (2021). Geophysical and geochemical constraints on the origin of Holocene intraplate volcanism in East Asia. Earth-Science Reviews, 218 103624, 103624. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103624
Crameri, Fabio, Magni, Valentina, Domeier, Mathew, Shephard, Grace E., Chotalia, Kiran, Cooper, George, Eakin, Caroline M., Grima, Antoniette Greta, Gürer, Derya, Király, Ágnes, Mulyukova, Elvira, Peters, Kalijn, Robert, Boris and Thielmann, Marcel (2020). A transdisciplinary and community-driven database to unravel subduction zone initiation. Nature Communications, 11 (1) 3750, 3750. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17522-9
van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Torsvik, Trond H., Schmid, Stefan M., Maţenco, Liviu C., Maffione, Marco, Vissers, Reinoud L. M., Gürer, Derya and Spakman, Wim (2020). Orogenic architecture of the Mediterranean region and kinematic reconstruction of its tectonic evolution since the Triassic. Gondwana Research, 81, 79-229. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2019.07.009
Gürer, Derya and van Hinsbergen, Douwe J.J. (2019). Diachronous demise of the Neotethys Ocean as a driver for non-cylindrical orogenesis in Anatolia. Tectonophysics, 760, 95-106. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2018.06.005
Guilmette, Carl, Smit, Matthijs A., van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Gürer, Derya, Corfu, Fernando, Charette, Benoit, Maffione, Marco, Rabeau, Olivier and Savard, Dany (2018). Forced subduction initiation recorded in the sole and crust of the Semail Ophiolite of Oman. Nature Geoscience, 11 (9), 688-695. doi: 10.1038/s41561-018-0209-2
Gurer, Derya, van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Ozkaptan, Murat, Creton, Iverna, Koymans, Mathijs R., Cascella, Antonio and Langereis, Cornelis G. (2018). Paleomagnetic constraints on the timing and distribution of Cenozoic rotations in Central and Eastern Anatolia. Solid Earth, 9 (2), 295-322. doi: 10.5194/se-9-295-2018
van der Boon, A., van Hinsbergen, D. J. J., Rezaeian, M., Gurer, D., Honarmand, M., Pastor-Galan, D., Krijgsman, W. and Langereis, C. G. (2018). Quantifying Arabia-Eurasia convergence accommodated in the Greater Caucasus by paleomagnetic reconstruction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 482, 454-469. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.11.025
Gurer, Derya, Plunder, Alexis, Kirst, Frederik, Corfu, Fernando, Schmid, Stefan M. and van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J. (2018). A long-lived Late Cretaceous-early Eocene extensional province in Anatolia? Structural evidence from the Ivriz Detachment, southern central Turkey. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 481, 111-124. doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.10.008
Gürer, Derya, van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Özkaptan, Murat, Creton, Iverna, Koymans, Mathijs R., Cascella, Antonio and Langereis, Cornelis G. (2017). Paleomagnetic constraints on the timing and distribution of Cenozoic rotations in Central and Eastern Anatolia. Solid Earth Discussions, 1-47. doi: 10.5194/se-2017-66
Gürer, Derya, van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Matenco, Liviu, Corfu, Fernando and Cascella, Antonio (2016). Kinematics of a former oceanic plate of the Neotethys revealed by deformation in the Ulukışla basin (Turkey). Tectonics, 35 (10), 2385-2416. doi: 10.1002/2016tc004206
van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Maffione, Marco, Plunder, Alexis, Kaymakcı, Nuretdin, Ganerød, Morgan, Hendriks, Bart W. H., Corfu, Fernando, Gürer, Derya, de Gelder, Giovanni I. N. O., Peters, Kalijn, McPhee, Peter J., Brouwer, Fraukje M., Advokaat, Eldert L. and Vissers, Reinoud L. M. (2016). Tectonic evolution and paleogeography of the Kırşehir Block and the Central Anatolian Ophiolites, Turkey. Tectonics, 35 (4), 983-1014. doi: 10.1002/2015tc004018
Gürer, Derya, Galland, Olivier, Corfu, Fernando, Leanza, Héctor A. and Sassier, Caroline (2015). Structure and evolution of volcanic plumbing systems in fold-and-thrust belts: a case study of the Cerro Negro de Tricao Malal, Neuquén Province, Argentina. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 128 (1-2), B31341.1-331. doi: 10.1130/b31341.1
van Hinsbergen, Douwe J. J., Peters, Kalijn, Maffione, Marco, Spakman, Wim, Guilmette, Carl, Thieulot, Cedric, Plumper, Oliver, Gurer, Derya, Brouwer, Fraukje M., Aldanmaz, Ercan and Kaymakci, Nuretdin (2015). Dynamics of intraoceanic subduction initiation: 2. Suprasubduction zone ophiolite formation and metamorphic sole exhumation in context of absolute plate motions. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 16 (6), 1771-1785. doi: 10.1002/2015GC005745
Barnes, Stephen J., Godel, Belinda, Guerer, Derya, Brenan, James M., Robertson, Jesse and Paterson, David (2013). Sulfide-olivine Fe-Ni exchange and the origin of anomalously Ni rich magmatic sulfides. Economic Geology, 108 (8), 1971-1982. doi: 10.2113/econgeo.108.8.1971
Godel, Belinda, Barnes, Stephen J., Guerer, Derya, Austin, Peter and Fiorentini, Marco L. (2013). Chromite in komatiites: 3D morphologies with implications for crystallization mechanisms. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 165 (1), 173-189. doi: 10.1007/s00410-012-0804-y
Conference Paper
Rogers, A., Rosenbaum, G. and Guerer, D (2019). Provenance of arc-related sediments in the Silverwood Group, southeast Queensland (Australia). GSA Earth Sciences Student Symposium Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, November 2019.