Neotectonic evolution of the Anaximander Mountains at the junction of the Hellenic and Cyprus arcs

Veen, J.H. ten; Woodside, John; Zitter, T.A.C.; Dumont, Jean-François; Mascle, J.; Volkonskaia, A.

doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2004.07.007

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“…However, the Hellenic and the Cyprus slabs appear to be separated by a vertical tear that extends from Rhodes into western Anatolia (De Boorder et al, 1998; Wortel and Spakman, 2000;Faccenna et al, 2006). Development of this slab-tear presumably facilitated the rapid SSW propagation of the Hellenic arc, involving sinistral shear along its SE flank that is marked by the Strabo and Pliny trenches (Ten Veen et al, 2005). Latest Miocene activation of the sinistral EAFZ apparently caused a disruption of the Cyprus arc subduction slab, its Pliocene detachment from the lithosphere and the extrusion of alkali basalts in SE Anatolia (Yurtmen et al, 2000).…”

Section: Evolution Of East-mediterranean Subduction Zones Arabia-eurmentioning

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TOPO-EUROPE: The geoscience of coupled deep Earth-surface processes

Cloetingh¹,

Ziegler²,

Bogaard³

et al. 2007

Global and Planetary Change

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TOPO-EUROPE addresses the 4-D topographic evolution of the orogens and intra-plate regions of Europe through a multidisciplinary approach linking geology, geophysics, geodesy and geotechnology. TOPO-EUROPE integrates monitoring, imaging, reconstruction and modelling of the interplay between processes controlling continental topography and related natural hazards. Until now, research on neotectonics and related topography development of orogens and intra-plate regions has received little attention. TOPO-EUROPE initiates a number of novel studies on the quantification of rates of vertical motions, related tectonically controlled river evolution and land subsidence in carefully selected natural laboratories in Europe. From orogen through platform to continental margin, these natural laboratories include the Alps/Carpathians-Pannonian Basin System, the West and Central European Platform, the Apennines-Aegean-Anatolian region, the Iberian Peninsula, the Scandinavian Continental Margin, the East-European Platform, and the Caucasus-Levant area. TOPO-EUROPE integrates European research facilities and know-how essential to advance the understanding of the role of topography in Environmental Earth System Dynamics. The principal objective of the network is twofold. Namely, to integrate national research programs into a common European network and, furthermore, to integrate activities among TOPO-EUROPE institutes and participants. Key objectives are to provide an interdisciplinary forum to share knowledge and information in the field of the neotectonic and topographic evolution of Europe, to

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Section: Evolution Of East-mediterranean Subduction Zones Arabia-eurmentioning

confidence: 99%

TOPO-EUROPE: The geoscience of coupled deep Earth-surface processes

Cloetingh¹,

Ziegler²,

Bogaard³

et al. 2007

Global and Planetary Change

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“…1). In a broad context, the region of eastern Mediterranean is a domain characterized by diffused deformation, which is influenced by both Aegean arc extension (Pliny trench), approximately NE-SW, and by the shear transferred from the North, due to the operation of the Fethiye-Burdur Fault Zone (FBFZ) combination with Rhodes Transform Fault (RTF) (Gürer et al, 2004;Nyst and Thatcher, 2004;ten Veen et al, 2004;Çevikbilen and Taymaz, 2012). Left lateral strike-slip or oblique motions prevail in the Fethiye EQ region (Fig.…”

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“…This basin is the continuation of the Pliny trench. This interpretation, strongly supported by marine geophysical data (ten Veen et al, 2004), precludes an alternative interpretation in which the Pliny trench is related to the hypothetical FBFZ, a correlation previously suggested by several authors (Taymaz and Price, 1992;Barka et al, 1997;Temiz et al, 1997;ten Veen et al, 2004). The FBFZ and RTF are evaluated as a wide left lateral fault zone with a large component of extension and well-defined seismicity (Taymaz et al, 1991;Taymaz and Price, 1992;McClusky et al, 2000McClusky et al, , 2003Gürer et al, 2004;Nyst and Thatcher, 2004;Reilinger et al, 2010;Çevikbilen and Taymaz, 2012).…”

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confidence: 85%

“…Subduction in the eastern Aegean arc has traditionally been interpreted as occurring along the Pliny and Strabo trenches. Compressional motion is transformed into strike-slip on the Pliny and Strabo trenches (McCLusky et al, 2003;Gürer et al, 2004;Nyst and Thatcher, 2004; ten Veen et al, 2004). A line with a projection of the Pliny trench along the Rhodes Island and southwest Turkey is the interpreted as the Rhodes Transform Fault (RTF) and Fethiye-Burdur Fault Zone (FBFZ) (see Fig.…”

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The 10 June 2012 Fethiye Mw 6.0 aftershock sequence and its relation to the 24–25 April 1957 Ms 6.9–7.1 earthquakes in SW Anatolia, Turkey

Görgün

Zang

Kalafat

et al. 2014

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

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The 10 June 2012 6.0 aftershock sequence in southwestern Anatolia is examined. Centroid moment tensors for 23 earthquakes with moment magnitudes ( ) between 3.7 and 6.0 are determined by applying a waveform inversion method. The mainshock is a shallow focus strike-slip with reverse component event at a depth of 30 km. The seismic moment ( ) of the mainshock is estimated as 1.28 10 Nm and rupture duration of the Fethiye mainshock is 38 s. The focal mechanisms of the aftershocks are mainly strike-slip faulting with a reverse component. The geometry of the focal mechanisms reveals a strike-slip faulting regime with NE-SW trending direction of -axis in the entire activated region. A stress tensor inversion of focal mechanism data is performed to obtain a more accurate picture of the Fethiye earthquake stress field. The stress tensor inversion results indicate a predominant strike-slip stress regime with a NW-SE oriented maximum horizontal compressive stress ( ). According to variance of the stress tensor inversion, to first order, the Fethiye earthquake area is characterized by a homogeneous interplate stress field. The Coulomb stress change associated with the mainshock and the largest aftershock are also investigated to evaluate any significant enhancement of stresses along the Gulf of Fethiye and surround-ing region. Positive lobes with stress more than 0.4 bars are obtained, indicating that these values are large enough to increase the Coulomb stress failure towards NNW-SSE and E-W directions.

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“…5) at sea wa ter depths of 1,500-2,500 m. Their set ting is clearly fa vour able for the oc currence of mud vol ca noes be cause of the pres ence of over-pressured flu ids and faults that act as con duits for the flu ids to es -cape (Ten Veen et al, 2004). Dis cov ered dur ing the Dutch ANAXIPROBE pro ject by multi-beam sur vey ing in 1995, seven large mud vol ca noes were sam pled in 1996 when the first gas hy drate sam ples in the Med i ter ra nean Sea were col lected from Kula MV.…”

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The unconventional hydrocarbon resources of Greece

Tsirambides¹

2015

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In ten sive ex plo ra tion of prob a ble con ven tional hy dro car bon res er voirs in Greece is tak ing place, through the in ter pre ta tion of seis mic pro files and of abun dant sur face geo log i cal data. The un con ven tional hy dro car bon po ten tial of the coun try is unknown, as de tailed in ves ti ga tions are lack ing. The most im por tant rock for ma tions which may con tain shale gas are found in the land and off shore bas ins of north east ern, north-cen tral, and west ern Greece. A re-eval u a tion of the data from all boreholes is needed, on the ba sis of new in for ma tion, with the aim of iden ti fy ing pos si ble re serves of un con ven tional hy dro carbons re tained in highly com pacted fine-grained strata. Meth ane hy drates have been de tected in the sub ma rine Anaximander Moun tains, east of Rhodes Is land. They cover an area of about 46 km 2 and the vol ume of meth ane is es ti mated at 2.6-6.4 trillion m 3 . The low con tent of the Greek lig nites in gas eous hy dro car bons and the wide spread tec ton ics in the Hel lenic Pen insula are the main fac tors which pre vented large gas ac cu mu la tions in its 14 main coal de pos its. How ever, ad di tional re search is needed to eval u ate the coal-bed gas po ten tial of the coun try.

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Neotectonic evolution of the Anaximander Mountains at the junction of the Hellenic and Cyprus arcs

Cited by 85 publications

References 38 publications

TOPO-EUROPE: The geoscience of coupled deep Earth-surface processes

TOPO-EUROPE: The geoscience of coupled deep Earth-surface processes

The 10 June 2012 Fethiye Mw 6.0 aftershock sequence and its relation to the 24–25 April 1957 Ms 6.9–7.1 earthquakes in SW Anatolia, Turkey

The unconventional hydrocarbon resources of Greece

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