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Uplifted Neogene marine sediments and Quaternary fluvial terraces in the Mut Basin, southern Turkey, reveal a detailed history of surface uplift along the southern margin of the Central Anatolian plateau from the Late Miocene to the present. New surface exposure ages (¹⁰Be, ²⁶Al, and ²¹Ne) of gravels capping fluvial strath terraces located between 28 and 135m above the Göksu River in the Mut Basin yield ages ranging from ca. 25 to 130ka, corresponding to an average incision rate of 0.52 to 0.67mm/yr. Published biostratigraphic data combined with new interpretations of the fossil assemblages from uplifted marine sediments reveal average uplift rates of 0.25 to 0.37mm/yr since Late Miocene time (starting between 8 and 5.45Ma), and 0.72 to 0.74mm/yr after 1.66 to 1.62Ma. Together with the terrace abandonment ages, the data imply 0.6 to 0.7mm/yr uplift rates from 1.6Ma to the present. The different post-Late …