Varying tectonic control on basin development at an active microplate margin: Latakia Basin, Eastern Mediterranean
MARINE GEOLOGY, vol.221, pp.15-60, 2005 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 221
- Publication Date: 2005
- Doi Number: 10.1016/j.margeo.2004.05.034
- Journal Name: MARINE GEOLOGY
- Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.15-60
- Keywords: Eastern Mediterranean, Latakia Basin, tectonics, basin evolution
- Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: No
Abstract
Detailed interpretation of multichannel seismic reflection profiles show that the Latakia Basin evolved in two distinct tectonic stages: southeast-directed contraction that culminated in the latest Miocene, followed in the early-middle Pliocene by progressive transition to partitioned contraction and extension related to the initiation of strike slip along the eastern Anatolian Transform Fault and its marine extensions. The Miocene fold/thrust belt comprises two arcuate culminations enclosing a Miocene piggy-back depocentre situated on the backlimb of the Amanos-Lamaka ramp anticline. In the early-middle Miocene, this piggy-back basin was part of a much wider foredeep that also encompassed the Miocene successions of the Cilicia-Adana basin complex to the north. The Misis-Kyrenia fold/thrust belt evolved in the Tortonian, effectively dividing the foredeep into two large piggy-back basins.