List of Figures

1. Geographical setting of the study area. Topographic and bathymetric data by Sandwell and Smith [Sandwell and Smith(2001)].
2. Image from [USGS(2000)]. Modified by [Barka (1992),Rockwell et al.(2001)].
3. Geographical and structural setting of the study area, showing the active faults.
4. CHIRP SBP data analysis (MARM2001): fault-related offsets of $^{14}$C dated subseafloor channels and paleo-shoreline [Polonia et al.(2002),Polonia et al.(2004),Cagatay et al.(2000),Cagatay et al.(2003)]
5. General ship track during Cruise MARM05, including transits from Rhodes and to Bari. The red circles are sediment samples (cores,grabs), the blue squares are CTD casts and XBT launches.
6. Ship track during Cruise MARM05 in the Marmara Sea and Gulf of Saros. The red circles are sediment samples (cores,grabs), the blue squares are CTD casts and XBT launches.
7. Ship track during Cruise MARM05 in the Gulf of Saros. The red circles are sediment samples (cores,grabs), the blue squares are CTD casts and XBT launches.
8. Ship track during Cruise MARM05 in western and central Marmara Sea. The red circles are sediment samples (cores,grabs), the blue squares are CTD casts and XBT launches.
9. Ship track during Cruise MARM05 in the Princes Islands region. The red circles are sediment samples (cores,grabs), the blue squares are CTD casts and XBT launches.
10. Ship track during Cruise MARM05 in the Izmit  gulf. The red circles are sediment samples (cores,grabs), the blue squares are CTD casts and XBT launches.
11. Ship track during Cruise MARM05 in the Gulf of Gemlik. The red circles are sediment samples (cores,grabs), the blue squares are CTD casts and XBT launches.
12. MCS Ship track in the Gemlik Gulf during Cruise MARM05.
13. R/V Urania.
14. Cruise MARM05. Instrumental Offsets (PDS-2000) on R/V Urania
15. 2.3 T gravity corer.
16. SW-104 water/sediment corer.
17. Sediments recovered with the 60L. grab.
18. One multibeam swath over the Canyon N of the Imrali I.. Projection UTM-35.
19. A field of dunes in Gemlik. Projection UTM-35.
20. Example of a gravity core opened on board.
21. Gulf of Izmit. Grab location on ''mounds''.
22. Magnetic susceptibility data of the cores. The red lines are the SW-104 corer data. Log10 of susceptibility data were taken for ease of confrontability for the different sampling areas.
23. Example of SEISPRO SEG-Y SBP processed data.
24. Example of SEISPRO SEG-Y SBP reprocessed data.
25. Cruise MARM05 CTD casts. Lower left: Sound Velocity(gray), T(red,12.5-25), S(blue, 20-40PSU). Lower right: TS diagram.