Constrains on the origin and history of the Eastern Mediterranean basin

Garfunkel, Zvi

doi:10.1016/s0040-1951(98)00176-0

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“…Part of the problem is that the sediments that were deposited in the eastern Tethys gateway have on many occasions not been recognized or properly dated. In addition, the chronological sequence of tectonic processes involved in the convergence of the Eurasia and African -Arabian plates is complex and actively debated (see Garfunkel 1998Garfunkel , 2004Golonka 2004). To assess the timing of gateway closure along the northern Arabian promontory, the major geodynamic processes of the ArabiaEurasia collision and their tectonic responses have to be taken into account.…”

Section: Seven Major Dmentioning

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Oligocene–Miocene basin evolution in SE Anatolia, Turkey: constraints on the closure of the eastern Tethys gateway

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The Oligocene-Miocene was a time characterized by major climate changes as well as changing plate configurations. The Middle Miocene Climate Transition (17 to 11 Ma) may even have been triggered by a plate tectonic event: the closure of the eastern Tethys gateway, the marine connection between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. To address this idea, we focus on the evolution of Oligocene and Miocene foreland basins in the southernmost part of Turkey, the most likely candidates to have formed this gateway. In addition, we take the geodynamic evolution of the Arabian-Eurasian collision into account.The Muş and Elazıg basins, located to the north of the Bitlis-Zagros suture zone, were most likely connected during the Oligocene. The deepening of both basins is biostratigraphically dated by us to occur during the Rupelian (Early Oligocene). Deep marine conditions (between 350 and 750 m) prevailed until the Chattian (Late Oligocene), when the basins shoaled rapidly to subtidal/intertidal environment in tropical to subtropical conditions, as indicated by the macrofossil assemblages. We conclude that the emergence of this basin during the Chattian severely restricted the marine connection between an eastern (Indian Ocean) and western (Mediterranean) marine domain. If a connection persisted it was likely located south of the Bitlis-Zagros suture zone. The Kahramanmaraş basin, located on the northern Arabian promontory south of the Bitlis-Zagros suture zone, was a foreland basin during the Middle and Late Miocene, possibly linked to the Hatay basin to the west and the Lice basin to the east. Our data indicates that this foreland basin experienced shallow marine conditions during the Langhian, followed by a rapid deepening during Langhian/Serravallian and prevailing deep marine conditions (between 350 and 750 m) until the early Tortonian. We have dated the youngest sediments underneath a subduction-related thrust at c. 11 Ma and suggest that this corresponds to the end of underthrusting in the Kahramanmaraş region, i.e.

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Oligocene–Miocene basin evolution in SE Anatolia, Turkey: constraints on the closure of the eastern Tethys gateway

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“…A complex basin-and-swell configuration was proposed to prevail throughout the northern parts of the Gondwanaland during the Paleozoic (Garfunkel, 1998). Several large up-doming elements related to this Paleozoic configuration were reported in the Eastern Mediterranean region: the Hercynian Geoanticline of Helez, centred in the coastal plane of Israel (Gvirtzman and Weissbrod, 1984); Hazro structure extending across the Turkish-Syrian border (Rigo de Righi and Cortesini, 1964); Riyadh swell in central Saudi Arabia (Weissbrod, 2005).…”

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Late Proterozoic – Paleozoic Geology of the Golan Heights and Its Relation to the Surrounding Arabian Platform

Meiler¹,

Reshef²,

Shulman³

2011

Earth and Environmental Sciences

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“…The affinity of the crust below the LB is regarded either as a highly stretched continent (Woodside 1977;Hirsch et al 1995;Vidal et al 2000) or as oceanic (Makris et al 1983;Ginzburg & Ben-Avraham 1987;Ben-Avraham et al 2002). Shallow-marine conditions prevailed in the basin during Triassic and Liasic times, later followed by the formation of the deep-marine basin (Bartov & Steinitz 1977;Garfunkel 1998). These marine conditions were interrupted by a strong period of erosion during the latest JurassicNeocomian time, with huge and widespread volcanic activity and deposition of terrestrial, fluvio-deltaic sediments, which became very thick in some places (e.g.…”

Section: General Evolution Of the Levantmentioning

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“…The most common trend recognized in many places is NE-SW (Cohen et al 1990;Garfunkel 1998;Vidal et al 2000;Gardosh & Druckman 2006) but others like NW -SE structures exist as well (Garfunkel & Derin 1984;Homberg et al 2009). Kinematic models (Dercourt et al 1986;Stampfli & Borel 2002) predict a north-south opening of the basin and some difficulties arise in adaptation of these models with the local extensional fabrics of the basin and surroundings.…”

Section: General Evolution Of the Levantmentioning

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Evolution of the Levant margin and western Arabia platform since the Mesozoic: introduction

Homberg

Bachmann

2010

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The Levant area comprises the offshore Levant Basin (LB) (eastern corner of the Eastern Mediterranean) as well as the adjacent continental slopes and platforms of the African and Arabian plates. This area experienced major events of the geodynamical evolution of the Middle East, such as the Late Palaeozoic-Early Mesozoic Pangea break up, the Late Cretaceous -Cenozoic closure of the Neo-Tethys and individualization of the Arabian plate, as well as a set of external factors like global sea-level and climate changes. This volume combines original data from the offshore and onshore Levant in various fields, including sedimentology, palaeontology, sequence stratigraphy, geochemistry, structural geology, stress reconstitution and geophysics (seismic lines, palaeomagnetism). All together, these multidisciplinary approaches allow the review of the development of the LB and gain a better insight on the later geological history and deformation processes of the Levant provinces.

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Constrains on the origin and history of the Eastern Mediterranean basin

Cited by 321 publications

References 74 publications

Oligocene–Miocene basin evolution in SE Anatolia, Turkey: constraints on the closure of the eastern Tethys gateway

Oligocene–Miocene basin evolution in SE Anatolia, Turkey: constraints on the closure of the eastern Tethys gateway

Late Proterozoic – Paleozoic Geology of the Golan Heights and Its Relation to the Surrounding Arabian Platform

Evolution of the Levant margin and western Arabia platform since the Mesozoic: introduction

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