Download or read book Miocene to Recent Tectonic Evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean written by Jeremy Hall and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Special Issue Miocene to Recent Tectonic Evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean written by Jeremy Hall and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Miocene to Recent Tectonic and Sedimentary Evolution of the Anaximander Seamounts Eastern Mediterranean Sea written by Jennifer Cranshaw and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Miocene to Recent Tectonic Evolution of an Active Transform Fault at the Junction of Hellenic and Cyrpus Arcs Eastern Mediterranean written by Ezgi Çınar and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interpretation of 3,500 km of high-resolution seismic reflection profiles revealed that the tectonic evolution of the Finike Basin and its immediate surroundings involves three phases of deformation since the Miocene. A protracted contractional phase dominated by southwest-northeast trending fold-thrust structures ocurred during the Early-Middle Miocene. This phase culminated during the Messinian, and was replaced by an interval of relative tectonic quiescence. The transition from the latest Miocene to Pliocene-Quaternary was marked by a reactivated tectonism. This phase was dominated by partitioned strain, including: (i) reactivation and northwest-southeast directed contraction in the Finike Basin extending into the southern Turkish continental margin, (ii) extension and transtension along the westernmost Antalya Basin and the adjacent continental margin, and (iii) contraction and transpression across the The Sırrı Erinç Plateau and the northern slopes of the Anaxagoras Mountain. A tectonic model is proposed where the development of these diverse tectonic regions can be explained by the development and temporal evolution of the intracontinental Beydağları Block, which experienced a 20o counterclockwise rotation during the Late Miocene and earliest Pliocene. Here it is proposed that the western and eastern boundaries of the block are delineated by the Burdur-Fethiye Fault Zone and the dextral Antalya Fault, whereas the southern boundary is defined by the northern margin of the Sirri Erinc Plateau and/or the southern margin of the Anaximenes and Anaxagoras Mountains.

Download or read book Miocene to Recent Stratigraphy Structural Architecture and Tectonic Evolution of the Antalya Basin Eastern Mediterranean Sea written by Fatma İs̨tar İs̨ler and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Miocene to Recent Stratigraphy Structural Architecture and Tectonic Evolution of the Antalya Basin Eastern Mediterranean Sea written by Fatma İs̨tar İs̨ler and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Miocene to Recent Tectonic and Kinematic Evolution of the Rhodes Finike and Antalya Basins and the Anaximander Mountains Eastern Mediterranean Sea written by Melanie Creusa Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interpretation of ~14,000 km of high-resolution seismic reflection profiles, together with 2,500 km of industry seismic reflection profiles and chronostratigraphic data from several onland exploration wells revealed a complex tectonic and sedimentary history for the northwestern segment of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Three seismic stratigraphic units are defined across the Rhodes, Finike and Antalya Basins and the greater Anaximander Mountains at the junction of the Hellenic and Cyprus Arcs: the uppermost Unit 1 (early Pliocene-Quaternary) is a strongly reflective laterally continuous package of high frequency reflections which extends from the seabed to the M-reflector. Beneath this, Unit 2 (Messinian-earliest Pliocene) is a weakly reflective package displaying complex internal architecture with weak, discontinuous and often chaotic reflections bounded at their top and base by the M- and N-reflectors, respectively. Unit 3 (pre-Messinian Miocene) is a strongly reverberatory, high reflective package of low amplitude reflections with significant lateral continuity. The structural architecture of the northwestern segment of the eastern Mediterranean Sea is characterised by two prominent phases of deformation, separated by a period of tectonic quiescence. A protracted interval of contraction in the Miocene created a prominent belt consisting of northeast- southwest striking and predominantly south-verging thrusts across the Rhodes and Finike basins, which assumed a broadly east-west strike across the Anaximander and Anaximenes Mountains. Farther to the east in the Anaxagoras Mountain and the Antalya Basin, the belt exhibits a northwest- southeast strike and is invariably southwest verging. This phase of contraction culminated in the latest Miocene and was followed after a period of tectonic quiescence by an interval of spatially-partitioned strain in the early Pliocene-Quaternary which resulted in the development of discrete domains characterized by extensional, contractional, transpressional and transtensional structures. The Anaximenes and Anaxagoras Mountains in the east and southeast exhibit contractional/transpressional deformation and form the linkage with the Florence Rise to the southeast. An arcuate and extensively faulted and folded region immediately northwest of the Anaximenes and Anaxagoras Mountains (i.e., the Sırrı Erinç Plateau) forms a 30-40 km-wide zone which separates the Anaximander Mountain in the west and northwest and the Anaximenes and Anaxagoras Mountains. The Miocene-Recent tectonic evolution of the eastern Mediterranean reflects the various phases of the closure of the Neotethys Ocean, and the stepwise collision of microplates and continental fragments. The collision and suturing of the African Microplate with the Eurasian Plate resulted in the west-directed tectonic escape of the Aegean-Anatolian Microplate during the Pliocene, which in turn, resulted in the partitioning of strain across the southern boundary between the African Plate and the Aegean-Anatolian Microplate. Mapping and interpretation clearly show that this boundary is a very wide zone of deformation extending from the southern fringes of the Mediterranean Ridge across the entire forearc region into Taurus Mountains of southern Turkey.

Download or read book Tectonic Evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean and Its Implications for the Messinian Salinity Crisis written by Pınar Güneş and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interpretation of a comprehensive set of high-resolution multi-channel seismic reflection profiles, multibeam bathymetry data and the litho- and bio-stratigraphic information from exploration wells across the Antalya Basin and Florence Rise revealed important conclusions on the Miocene to Recent tectonic evolution and the Messinian Salinity Crisis depositional history of the eastern Mediterranean Basin. This study clearly demonstrated the presence of a 4-division Messinian evaporite stratigraphy in the eastern Mediterranean, similar to that observed in the western Mediterranean, suggesting the existence of a similar set of depositional processes across the Mediterranean during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. However, the stratigraphic and depositional similarities of the evaporites between the eastern and western basins do not necessitate synchroneity in their depositional histories. The fact that the only saline water source for the eastern Mediterranean is the Atlantic Ocean and that the Sicily sill creates a physical barrier between the eastern and western Mediterranean impose several critical conditions. A simple 2-D model is developed which satisfies these conditions. The model suggests that the eastern and western basin margins experienced a nearly synchronized gypsum deposition associated with the initial drawdown of the Mediterranean level, followed by the resedimentation in the deep basins of the terrigenous and early evaporite deposits as the drawdown intensified. The synchroneity of evaporite deposition across the eastern and western basins broke down as the Sicily Gateway became largely subaerial during a period when the Calabrian Arc area experienced uplift associated with slab break-off: the Sicily sill must have remained within a "goldilocks" zone to allow the right amount of saline water inflow into the eastern Mediterranean so that evaporites (massive halite) could be deposited. During this time, the sea level in western Mediterranean was at the breach-level of the Sicily sill, thus no evaporite deposition took place there. The model suggests that further restriction of the inflow occurred across the Betic and Rif gateways as these regions also largely became subaerial associated with the uplift of the Gibraltar Arc region caused again by the lithospheric slab break-off. However, similar to the Sicily Gateway, the Betic and Rif gateways must also have remained within the "goldilocks" zone to allow the right amount of saline water inflow into the western Mediterranean so that massive halite could be deposited. The re-opening of the Betic and Rif gateways reflooded the western Mediterranean first, then the eastern Mediterranean allowing the deposition of a mixed evaporite-siliciclastic unit, followed by the transgressive sediments with a distinctive brackish water Lago Mage fauna. The interpretation and mapping of the tightly-spaced high-resolution multichannel seismic reflection profiles clearly improved our understanding of the Late Miocene-Recent tectonic and kinematic evolution of the Antalya Basin and Florence Rise and it is relationship with Cyprus-Eratosthenes collision zone, along the plate boundary between the African Plate and the overriding Aegean- Anatolian Microplate. The pre-Messinian Miocene structural architecture of the Antalya Basin and its southwestern extension into the Florence Rise is characterized by a very prominent broadly northwest-southeast striking and largely southwest verging fold thrust belt, with occasional northeast verging back-thrusts. During the Messinian a number of prominent thrusts remained active; however, numerous thrusts whichwere active during the pre-Messinian Miocene became inactive. During the Pliocene-Quaternary the stain was partitioned into five broadly northwest-southeast trending morpho-tectonic domains, each delineated by a distinctive seafloor morphology: (a) a domain across the inner and western Antalya Basin is dominated by extensional faults, (b) a domain immediately south of the extensional faults, is characterized by contractional structures, (c) a halokinetic zone in southwestern Antalya Basin north of the foothills of the Anaxagoras Mountain is characterized by numerous positive flower structures beneath a corrugated seafloor, (d) a domain across the crestal portion of the Florence Rise is dominated by prominent inversion structures, and (e) a domain across the northeastern and southwestern margins of the Florence Rise characterized by positive flower structures.

Download or read book The Miocene Recent Evolution of the Antalya Basin Eastern Mediterranean Sea written by Heather King and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed interpretation of high-resolution and industry multichannel seismic reflection profiles and lithostratigraphy from onshore wells reveals that the Miocene to Recent tectonic evolution of the western Antalya Basin occurred in three distinct intervals: the pre-Messinian Miocene, the Messinian, and the Pliocene-Quaternary. During the pre-Messinian Miocene, a prominent east-west striking fold-thrust belt developed across the region. Today, this belt is characterized by NW-SE striking, SW-verging thrust panels in the east and broadly N-S striking, W-verging thrust panels in the west. The belt became buckled during the late Miocene assuming its current configuration as an inverted V-shaped structure within the marine western Antalya Basin. The Miocene fold-thrust belt mapped in the marine areas is readily correlated with the onland Isparta Angle. The Messinian interval was tectonically quiet and marked by the deposition of a thick evaporite succession within the deep Antalya Basin. The Pliocene-Quaternary interval marked a major change in tectonic style, where strain is partitioned into discrete regional morpho-tectonic domains. In the east, the Miocene fold-thrust belt remained largely inactive; however, several prominent thrusts became re-activated during this time. Mapping showed that these three thrusts can be traced toward the southeast in the deep Antalya Basin and readily correlated with the Ovgos, Kythrea and Orga thrusts mapped onland Cyprus. The shallower slope and shelf in this area are characterized by broadly actuate and NW-SE striking and SE- and NW-dipping extensional faults with strike slip components. In the west portion of the Antalya Basin, the structural framework was dominated by a series of broadly N-S striking, invariably steeply E-dipping extensional faults which form a 20-30 km wide zone of deformation. This zone occurs over the very steep continental slope in western Antalya Basin, and extends westward into the Kemer Peninsula and the Beydağları region. Correlations with the similarly striking Pliocene-Quaternary transtensional faults mapped onland suggest that these faults must also have notable strike slip components.

Download or read book The Geological Evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean written by J. E. Dixon and published by Blackwell Science. This book was released on 1984 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes 61 papers from a conference held in Edinburgh in September 1982 to consider all aspects of geology relevant to the tectonic evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean. The book is organised in 5 sections by age of events discussed and by area within this framework. The first is concerned with early Mesozoic events linked to ocean closure and so by implication deals with the fate of the Palaeozoic Tethys or Palaeotethys. Later sections deal with events following the birth and growth of wholly Mesozoic ocean basins of the Neotethys.

Download or read book Neogene to Recent Tectonic Evolution of the Central Mediterranean written by Charon Estelle Duermeijer and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tectonic Development of the Eastern Mediterranean Region written by A. H. F. Robertson and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2006 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eastern Mediterranean region is a classic area for the study of tectonic processes and settings related to the development of the Tethyan orogenic belt. The present set of research and synthesis papers by earth scientists from countries in this region and others provides an up-to-date, interdisciplinary overview of the tectonic development of the Eastern Mediterranean region from Precambrian to Recent. Key topics include continental rifting, ophiolite genesis and emplacement, continental collision, extensional tectonics, crustal exhumation and intra-plate deformation (e.g. active faulting). Alternative tectonic reconstructions of the Tethyan orogen are presented and discussed, with important implications for other regions of the world. The book will be an essential source of information and interpretation for academic researchers (geologists and geophysicists), advanced undergraduates and also for industry professionals, including those concerned with hydrocarbons, minerals and geological hazards (e.g. earthquakes).

Download or read book Recent Evolution and Seismicity of the Mediterranean Region written by E. Boschi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mediterranean is one of the most studied regions of the world. In spite of this, a considerable spread of opinions exists about the geodynamic evolution and the present tectonic setting of this zone. The difficulty in recognizing the driving mechanisms of deformation is due to a large extent to the complex distribution in space and time of tectonic events, to the high number of parameters involved in this problem and to the scarce possibility of carrying out quantitative estimates of the deformation implied by the various geodynamic hypotheses. However, we think that a great deal of the present ambiguity could be removed if there were more frequent and open discussions among the scientists who are working on this problem. The meeting ofERICE was organized to provide an opportunity in this sense. In making this effort, we were prompted by the conviction that each step towards the understanding of the Mediterranean evolution is of basic importance both for its scientific consequences and for the possibleimplicationsfor society. It is well known, for instance, that the knowledge ofongoing tectonic processes in a given region and of their connection with seismic activity may lead to the recognition of middle long term precursors of strong earthquakes. The few cases of tentative earthquake prediction in the world occurred where information on large scale seismotectonic behavior was available. This led to identify the zones prone to dangerous shocks, where observations of short-term earthquake precursors were then concentrated.

Download or read book Geological Evolution of the Mediterranean Basin written by Daniel J. Stanley and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mediterranean Sea, nestled between Africa, southern Europe, and the Middle East, may be envisioned as a complex picture-puzzle comprising numerous intricate pieces, many of which are already in place. A general image, in terms of science, has emerged, although at this time large gaps are noted and some areas of the picture remain fuzzy and indistinct. In recent years this fascinating, mind-teasing puzzle image has become clearer with individual pieces more easily recognized and rapidly emplaced, largely by means of multidisciplinary and multinational team efforts. In this respect, the Special Program Panel on Marine Sciences of the NATO Scientific Af fairs Division considered the merits of initiating four conferences bearing on the Mediterranean ecosystem. It was suggested that the first, emphasizing geology, should dovetail with subsequent seminars on physical oceanogra phy, marine biology, and ecology and man's influence on the natural Medi terranean regime. At a conference held in Banyuls-sur-Mer, France, in August 1979, Profes sor Raimondo Selli was urged by some panel members to initiate an Ad vanced Research Institute (ARI) that would focus primarily on the geologi cally recent evolution of the Mediterranean Sea and serve as a logical base for future NATO conferences on the Mediterranean.

Download or read book Postcollisional Tectonics and Magmatism in the Mediterranean Region and Asia written by Yildirim Dilek and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Mediterranean region and Asia provide a natural laboratory to investigate the driving forces of continental tectonics in an ongoing collisional orogen and the crustal and mantle response to various modes of deformation associated with plate boundary processes. The multidisciplinary research efforts in this region over the last fifteen years have produced a wealth of new data to better understand the interplay and feedback mechanisms between crustal and mantle processes and the dynamic landscape evolution in a complexly deforming area. A number of discrete collisional events between the Gondwana-derived continental fragments (i.e., Adria, Pelagonia, Arabia, India) and Eurasia controlled the geodynamics of the Mediterranean region and Asia during the late Mesozoic and Cenozoic. This book is a collection of research papers, presenting new data, interpretations, and syntheses on various aspects of the collision-induced tectonic, magmatic, metamorphic, and geomorphic processes that have affected the evolution of this orogenic belt. It should help us better understand the mode and nature of tectonic and magmatic processes and crustal evolution in active collision zones, and the distribution and causes of seismic and volcanic events and their impact on landscape evolution."--Publisher's website.

Download or read book The Ocean Basins and Margins written by Alan Nairn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Volume 4A.- 1. Mediterranean and Tethys.- I. Introduction.- II. The Overall Situation.- III. Tethyan Faunas and Paleotectonics.- IV. Paleotectonic and Paleogeographic Evolution.- A. Permian and Triassic: Paleotethys and Early Rifting.- B. Jurassic: The Oceanic Tethys.- C. Cretaceous to Recent: Alpine Orogeny and Mediterranean.- V. Conclusions.- Acknowledgments.- References.- 2. Tectonic Evolution of the Mediterranean Basins.- I. Introduction.- A. Statement of Three Hypotheses.- B. Physiographic Provinces of the Mediterranean.- II. Balearic Basin.- A. Crustal Structure and Age.- B. Origin.-

Download or read book Neogene Sedimentary History of the Cilicia Basin Eastern Mediterranean written by Bahar Kurtbogan and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: