Varying tectonic control on basin development at an active microplate margin: Latakia Basin, Eastern Mediterranean

Hall J., Aksu A., Calon T., YAŞAR D.

MARINE GEOLOGY, cilt.221, ss.15-60, 2005 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 221
  • Basım Tarihi: 2005
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.margeo.2004.05.034
  • Dergi Adı: MARINE GEOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.15-60
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Eastern Mediterranean, Latakia Basin, tectonics, basin evolution, NEOGENE EVOLUTION, ADANA BASIN, ANATOLIAN FAULT, CYPRUS, SOUTHERN, COMPLEX, STRATIGRAPHY, EXTENSION, RANGE
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

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.