Upper Cenozoic stratigraphy and paleogeographic evolution of Myrtoon and adjacent basins, Aegean Sea, Greece

Anastasakis, George; Piper, David J. W.; Dermitzakis, Michael; Karakitsios, Vassilios

doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2005.10.004

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“…Anastasakis & Piper (2005) recognized three correlatable key reflections (A -C, of latest Pliocene to Quaternary age) in Meteor 1974 seismic profiles (Fig. 3a) and noted that the seismic character of these reflections was remarkably constant in different basins near the central part of the south Aegean arc (Anastasakis et al 2006). They assigned a chronology to these reflectors (1) by making ties to dated volcanic horizons in Milos; and (2) by correlating stacked coastal progradation sequences on subsiding shelves near Milos and assigning chronology on the basis of eustatic sea-level changes estimated from the global oxygen isotope curve (Skene et al 1998).…”

Section: Geological Setting and Previous Workmentioning

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Distribution and chronology of submarine volcanic rocks around Santorini and their relationship to faulting

Piper

Pe‐Piper

Perissoratis

et al. 2007

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Seismic reflection profiles from the marine areas around Santorini in the south Aegean arc show the distribution of active faults and the occurrence of submarine volcanic rocks interfingering with stratified basinal sediment. Santorini is located at the intersection of fault sets of different ages. To the west, active faults trend east-west, whereas to the east, active faults trend ENE-WSW and a slightly older set of faults trends NE-SW. Subsurface submarine volcanic rocks can be dated using ages estimated for the stratified basin sediments elsewhere in the Milos-Christiani Basin. Volcanic horizons off Santorini correlate with the main (young) Akrotiri (0.65-0.55 Ma) and old Akrotiri (1.6 ka) volcanic episodes, respectively. Off Christiani, the upper unit of volcanic rocks is of similar age to the young Akrotiri episode and the lower volcanic unit is likely to be of latest Pliocene age. Late Neogene basin subsidence and volcanism are a consequence of changing patterns of faulting resulting from the collision of the African and Aegean-Anatolian plates.

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Section: Geological Setting and Previous Workmentioning

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Distribution and chronology of submarine volcanic rocks around Santorini and their relationship to faulting

Piper

Pe‐Piper

Perissoratis

et al. 2007

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“…Nevertheless, the Adriatic Sea is a shallow sea, and its depth and areal extent changed considerably during the Pliocene and Pleistocene, especially during the coldest intervals. The level of the Adriatic Sea fell by between 120 and 200 m during each of the cold intervals in the glacial ages (van Andel and Shackleton 1982;Dermitzakis 1990;Geraga et al 2000;Anastasakis et al 2006;Velić and Malvić 2011), and its northern shoreline shifted southwards to the vicinity of the presentday Monte-Gargano-Pelješac bridge (Velić and Malvić 2011). These changes created land-bridges across the Adriatic Sea that could have been favourable for the westward dispersal of Pelobates.…”

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First record of Pelobates syriacus (Anura, Amphibia) in the early Pleistocene of Italy

Blain

Delfino

Berto

et al. 2015

Palaeobio Palaeoenv

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“…The Stereoplot indicate poles (P) and mechanical striae (L) of the EPF largest throws are observed along its western boundary, namely along the coasts of Kynouria, where they exceed 500 m, while the faults exhibit an en-echelon geometry and westwards backtilt of the fault blocks (Papanikolaou et al , 1994Van Andel et al 1993). Their greatest thickness is encountered in the centre of the basin where it reaches 500 m (Papanikolaou et al , 1994Van Andel et al 1993;Anastasakis et al 2006). …”

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“…This opening is attributed to a retreat of the subduction zone and the onset of curvature of the Hellenic Arc. In such a case, the Late Miocene-Early Pliocene extensional detachment faults affecting eastern Peloponnesus are the result of crustal thinning associated with the early stages of opening of Argolikos Gulf (Van Andel et al 1993;Papanikolaou et al 1994), and the Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene highangle normal faulting is correlated with a later stage, during which the Gulf widened and subsided (Van Andel et al 1993;Papanikolaou et al 1994;Anastasakis et al 2006).…”

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Extensional tectonics in Mt Parnon (Peloponnesus, Greece)

Skourtsos

Λεκκασ

2010

Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch)

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Peloponnesus in the south-western part of the Aegean is formed by a heterogeneous pile of alpine thrust sheets that was reworked by normal faulting from Upper Miocene to recent times. Upper Miocene-Lower Pliocene extension in Mt Parnon was accommodated by several mappable brittle detachment faults that exhibit a top-to-the-NE-ENE sense of shear. The hanging wall of the detachments comprises a number of highly tilted fault blocks containing abundant evidence of intense internal deformation by normal faulting and layer-parallel shearing contemporaneous with faulting. These fault blocks are remnants of a cohesive extensional block that slipped to the NE-ENE and broke up along high-angle normal faults that sole into or are cut by the detachments. The largest part of this block is located at the eastern edge of the metamorphic core forming the hanging wall of East Parnon high-angle normal fault that excised part of the aforementioned detachments. The lowermost metamorphic Unit of the nappe-pile does not seem to be affected by the previous extensional episode. Upper plate reconstruction shows that various units of the nappe-pile were affected by high-angle normal faults that linked to detachment faults in the weaker layers. Since the Middle-Upper Pliocene further exhumation of the metamorphic rocks has resulted in the formation of high-angle normal faults overprinting Neogene extensional structures and cut the entire nappe-pile. This new fault system tilted the earlier extensional structures and produced a NE-SW coaxial deformation of Mt Parnon.

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Upper Cenozoic stratigraphy and paleogeographic evolution of Myrtoon and adjacent basins, Aegean Sea, Greece

Cited by 35 publications

References 19 publications

Distribution and chronology of submarine volcanic rocks around Santorini and their relationship to faulting

Distribution and chronology of submarine volcanic rocks around Santorini and their relationship to faulting

First record of Pelobates syriacus (Anura, Amphibia) in the early Pleistocene of Italy

Extensional tectonics in Mt Parnon (Peloponnesus, Greece)

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