The Fethiye–Burdur Fault Zone: A component of upper plate extension of the subduction transform edge propagator fault linking Hellenic and Cyprus Arcs, Eastern Mediterranean

Seismotectonic content by the source parameters of the 10 June 2012 Ölüdeniz-Fethiye (Dodecanese Islands) Mw 6.1 earthquake and aftershocks (southwestern Turkey)

“…The region was dominated by a NW-SE pure compression that originated by the Isparta Angle in the Lower Miocene and a NW-SE extension that followed after the crust thickening due to compression from the Pliocene to Recent (Ö ver et al 2012). The NE-SW normal faults seen in the NW-SE seismic reflection sections between Rhodes Island and Fethiye Gulf have been formed by the sinistral Pliny Strabo Fault Zone (PSFZ) (Hall et al 2014). The influence zone (data set-A) of the 10 June 2012 Fethiye Mw 6.1 earthquake and the origin of the active faults that created the stress field in the neighboring areas of Fethiye earthquake could be explained in two ways based on the dominant extension accompanied partially strike-slip component obtained from the focal mechanism solutions.…”

“…7 a Focal mechanism solutions according to the international seismological centers. Besides the focal mechanism solutions of the 10 June 2012 Fethiye Mw 6.1 earthquake main shock and after shocks, bathymetry and active faults are shown (thrust and fold axes from Hall et al 2009, faults located in Rhodes Island are adapted from Leite and Mascle 1982;Mascle and Martin 1990; normal faults between Rhodes Island and Fethiye Gulf are adapted based on the results of this study and from Hall et al 2014). The focal mechanism solutions for the earthquakes (M C 3.5) and others are plotted with blue and red beach balls respectively.…”

Neogene-Quaternary evolution of the Tefenni basin on the Fethiye-Burdur fault zone, SW Anatolia-Turkey

“…The analysis of these data indicated that a compression in a NE-SW direction and accordingly a NW-SE trending extension influenced the basin during the middle-late Miocene. Since Pliocene, the stress axes have changed with the effect of counterclockwise rotation and progressively increased shearing along the Fethiye-Burdur fault zone (Kissel and Poisson, 1986;Kissel et al, 1993Kissel et al, , 2003Barka et al, 1995;Barka and Reilinger, 1997;Hall et al, 2009). At this time compression switched to NW-SE direction and extension to NE-SW direction.…”

“…The fault zone comprises a group of subparallel branching and en-echelon, northeast-southwest trending, oblique faults with left lateral strike-slip component and normal faults. It lies within a nearly linear belt, as much as 40 km in width, extending from the Gulf of Fethiye in the eastern Mediterranean northeastward through the western limb of the Isparta Angle, a distance of about 310 km Taymaz and Price, 1992;Price and Scott, 1994; Barka and Reilinger, 1997;Ya gmurlu, 2000;Elitez and Yaltırak, 2014;Hall et al, 2014). The Fethiye-Burdur fault zone is the most seismically active fault zone in southwestern Anatolia and the kinematics and earthquake history indicate that it is a major seismic hazard for the region (McKenzie, 1978;Eyido gan et al, 1991;Barka et al, 1995;Koçyi git, 2000;Bozcu et al, 2007).…”

Vegetation and climate changes during the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene in SW Turkey – Comment to the published paper by Jiménez-Moreno et al., Quaternary Research, 84 (2015), 448–456

“…There are several Miocene to recent terrestrial and lacustrine basins along the NE-SW-trending Burdur-Fethiye Shear Zone in southwestern Turkey Hall et al, 2014;Elitez et al, 2015). The stratigraphic positions of the sequences in these basins are controversial (e.g., Alçiçek, 2015;Elitez et al, 2015).…”