Crustal structure of the Levant Basin, eastern Mediterranean

Ben‐Avraham, Zvi; Ginzburg, A.; Makris, J.; Eppelbaum, Lev

doi:10.1016/s0040-1951(01)00226-8

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“…A set of available seismic profiles (see red lines in Figure 2) has been exploited to constrain the model. In detail, seismic profiles from [39,49] bounded by the information retrieved from the receiver functions [50,51] have been used.…”

Section: The Levant Crustal Structure From Gravity Inversionmentioning

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Moho Depth and Crustal Architecture Beneath the Levant Basin from Global Gravity Field Model

Sampietro¹,

Mansi

Capponi

2018

Geosciences

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Abstract:The study of the discontinuity between the Earth crust and upper mantle, the so-called Moho, and of the lithospheric architecture in general, has several important applications in exploration geophysics. For instance, it is used to facilitate the inversion of seismic-related data, in order to obtain important information on the sedimentary layers or to study the Earth's heat flux. In this paper, the Levant crustal structure is being investigated starting from the inversion of gravity disturbances coming from a global geopotential field model based on ESA GOCE satellite mission integrated with seismic derived information. In the considered area, which is of particular interest because of its richness from the resources point of view, the deep crustal structure is still a matter of study due to the presence of a thick sequence of sedimentary layers, deposited within geological eras by the Nile River. Within the current work, the shape of the Oceanic domain in correspondence to the Herodotus Basin and the Cyprus Arc has been clearly defined. Moreover the nature of the Levantine Basin and of the Eratosthenes crust has been investigated by a set of ad hoc tests, finding the presence of continental crust. Finally, the Moho depth and the crustal density distribution have been retrieved. Several localized anomalies, in the Cyprus area, have been identified and modelled too, thus confirming the presence of heavy material, with a thickness up to 10 km, in the sedimentary layer and shallower part of the crust.

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Section: The Levant Crustal Structure From Gravity Inversionmentioning

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Moho Depth and Crustal Architecture Beneath the Levant Basin from Global Gravity Field Model

Sampietro¹,

Mansi

Capponi

2018

Geosciences

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“…The seamount itself is underlain by ca. 28 km of continental crust (Aal et al, 2001;Ben-Avraham et al, 2002), Cyprus is underlain by ca. 35 km of continental crust (Makris et al, 1983), and to the southeast of the seamount there is either oceanic crust (Ben-Avraham et al, 2002) or highly attenuated continental crust (Gardosh and Druckman, 2006).…”

Section: Uplift Mechanisms and Predicted Surface Uplift Patternsmentioning

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“…28 km of continental crust (Aal et al, 2001;Ben-Avraham et al, 2002), Cyprus is underlain by ca. 35 km of continental crust (Makris et al, 1983), and to the southeast of the seamount there is either oceanic crust (Ben-Avraham et al, 2002) or highly attenuated continental crust (Gardosh and Druckman, 2006). The collision zone, which has been described as a N-dipping subduction zone (Woodside, 1977), has been more recently interpreted to be accommodating initial collision between the African and Eurasian plates (Robertson, 1998), possibly as a restraining bend along a continent-continent interface (Harrison et al, 2008).…”

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Multi-phased uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian plateau, Turkey: A record of tectonic and upper mantle processes

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Cosentino

Bookhagen

et al. 2012

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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“…to present age (Makris et al 1983;Ginzburg & Ben-Avraham 1987;Vidal et al 2000;BenAvraham et al 2002). The affinity of the crust below the LB is regarded either as a highly stretched continent (Woodside 1977;Hirsch et al 1995;Vidal et al 2000) or as oceanic (Makris et al 1983;Ginzburg & Ben-Avraham 1987;Ben-Avraham et al 2002). Shallow-marine conditions prevailed in the basin during Triassic and Liasic times, later followed by the formation of the deep-marine basin (Bartov & Steinitz 1977;Garfunkel 1998).…”

Section: General Evolution Of the Levantmentioning

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“…Kinematic models (Dercourt et al 1986;Stampfli & Borel 2002) predict a north-south opening of the basin and some difficulties arise in adaptation of these models with the local extensional fabrics of the basin and surroundings. Another characteristic of the area is the long-lived rift activity, which likely included several rifting pulses, and various ages for the opening of the basin have been proposed, from Triassic or Late Permian to Cretaceous (Freund et al 1975;Dercourt et al 1986;Garfunkel 1998;Ben-Avraham et al 2002;Stampfli & Borel 2002).…”

Section: General Evolution Of the Levantmentioning

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Evolution of the Levant margin and western Arabia platform since the Mesozoic: introduction

Homberg

Bachmann

2010

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The Levant area comprises the offshore Levant Basin (LB) (eastern corner of the Eastern Mediterranean) as well as the adjacent continental slopes and platforms of the African and Arabian plates. This area experienced major events of the geodynamical evolution of the Middle East, such as the Late Palaeozoic-Early Mesozoic Pangea break up, the Late Cretaceous -Cenozoic closure of the Neo-Tethys and individualization of the Arabian plate, as well as a set of external factors like global sea-level and climate changes. This volume combines original data from the offshore and onshore Levant in various fields, including sedimentology, palaeontology, sequence stratigraphy, geochemistry, structural geology, stress reconstitution and geophysics (seismic lines, palaeomagnetism). All together, these multidisciplinary approaches allow the review of the development of the LB and gain a better insight on the later geological history and deformation processes of the Levant provinces.

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Crustal structure of the Levant Basin, eastern Mediterranean

Cited by 172 publications

References 29 publications

Moho Depth and Crustal Architecture Beneath the Levant Basin from Global Gravity Field Model

Moho Depth and Crustal Architecture Beneath the Levant Basin from Global Gravity Field Model

Multi-phased uplift of the southern margin of the Central Anatolian plateau, Turkey: A record of tectonic and upper mantle processes

Evolution of the Levant margin and western Arabia platform since the Mesozoic: introduction

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