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In active tectonic areas, fault systems represent one of the main structural elements in shaping landscapes. Thus, the study and dating of landforms and continental deposits affected by tectonic deformation, such as river profiles and knickpoints, paleosurfaces, strath and alluvial terraces, are crucial to assess the activity state of the faults and how they evolved over time. Some features may provide a time-averaged history of deformation (eg, deformed geomorphic markers), while others have the potential to record a continuous history of deformation (eg, rock-uplift histories from inversions of river profiles). In this work, we present three case studies where we reconstruct the history and characteristics of fault systems at different scales through a combination of geomorphological and morphostratigraphical analyses. At a regional scale, we present the case study of the North Anatolian Fault (NAF). We reconstructed a …