The Medina Wrench: a key to the kinematics of the central and eastern Mediterranean over the past 5 Ma

Miocene to Recent tectonic evolution of the eastern Mediterranean: New pieces of the old Mediterranean puzzle

“…Thus the westward displacement of the Aegean-Anatolian Microplate and its counterclockwise rotation is driven by both the north-northwest pushing of the Arabian Microplate as well as the pulling of the subducting African Plate beneath the Hellenic Arc (Reilinger et al, 1997;McClusky et al, 2000). Plate tectonic studies Xengfr and YVlmaz (1981), Hancock and Barka (1981), Jongsma et al (1985Jongsma et al ( , 1987, Dewey et al (1986), Mascle et al (2000), Zitter et al (2003) and Salamon et al (2003). Note that the position of several plate boundaries and the origin of particular structures are still controversial.…”

Late Triassic–early Jurassic block tilting along E–W faults, in southern Tunisia: New interpretation of the Tebaga of Medenine

“…This approach, based on new field investigations, a reassessment of existing geological maps (geological maps of Tunisia (Ben Haj Ali et al, 1985;Bouaziz et al, 1986;Zouari et al, 1987;Bouaziz and Mello, 1990;Bouaziz, 1990aBouaziz, ,b, 1991Bouaziz, , 1998 and Libya (El Hinnawy and Cheshitev, 1975;Mann, 1975;Smetana, 1975;Antonovic, 1977;Novovic, 1977;Zivanovic, 1977), a reassessment of previous works (Mathieu, 1949;Busson, 1972;Bouaziz, 1995) and well correlations, allow us to revisit the structural significance of the ''Tebaga of Medenine''. Jongsma et al (1985Jongsma et al ( , 1987, Chamot-Rooke et al (2005), Rusk (2001), Casero and Roure (1994), Finetti (1982), and Burollet (1991). B = General cross-section from the middle part of the Pelagian sea to the Sahara platform modified from Jongsma et al (1985), Hallett (2002), Boote et al (1998), Klett (2001), and Boccaletti and Manetti (1978) …”

Holocene sea level change in Malta

“…It is believed to be subject either to transtensional (both right-and left-lateral) and/or extensional tectonics (Finetti and Del Ben, 1986;Jongsma et al, 1987) or to rifting processes (Grasso et al, 1993;Catalano et al, 1994). The rifting processes could have produced two different systems: 1) NEeSW trending faulting during the early Miocene, with 15% extension and accompanied by crustal thinning; 2) NWeSE trending faulting, initiated during the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene and still active, with a right lateral component (Illies, 1981).…”