Late Quaternary marine terraces in the Mediterranean coastal area of Syria: Geochronology and neotectonics

Dodonov, A.E.; Трифонов, В. Г.; Ivanova, T. P.; Kuznetsov, V. Yu.; Максимов, Ф. Е.; Bachmanov, D.M.; Sadchikova, T. A.; Симакова, А.Н.; Minini, H.; Al-Kafri, A.-M.; Ali, O.

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2008.02.008

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“…However, several lines of evidence suggest that the throughgoing 'Nahr el Kebir Fault Zone', accommodating active left-lateral and normal slip, is a mistaken concept. First, as noted above, the marine terraces and fluvial terraces of the Nahr el Kebir River show no evidence of tilting towards this structure ; indeed, according to Dodonov et al (2008) We have investigated this area, but found no evidence for such a fault junction, nor did others who have worked in that area (e.g., Perinçek and Eren, 1990;Karabacak et al, 2010). Fourth, except where cut by minor faults such as south of Banyas (Fig.…”

Section: Disputed Onshore Faulting In Northwestern Syriamentioning

confidence: 67%

“…4; Ponikarov et al, 1963). Dodonov et al (2008) have shown that this latter fault offsets the Last Interglacial (MIS 5e; ~125 ka) marine terrace, which declines from ~20 m a.s.l. in its footwall to ~7 m a.s.l.…”

Section: Faulting Offshore Of the Syrian Coastmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Hardenberg and Robertson (2007) proposed that there is a component of active normal faulting in this area given different heights of Holocene marine terraces on either side this stretch of coastline, although Dalongueville et al (1993) did not recognise any such height variation along the coast of NW Syria. Dodonov et al (2008) reported that the Last Interglacial marine terrace declines from ~35 m a.s.l. at Latakia to ~30 m a.s.l.…”

Section: Faulting Offshore Of the Syrian Coastmentioning

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The kinematics of central-southern Turkey and northwest Syria revisited

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Central-southern Turkey, NW Syria, and adjacent offshore areas in the NE Mediterranean region form the boundary zone between the Turkish, African and Arabian plates. A great deal of new information has emerged in recent years regarding senses and rates of active crustal deformation in this region, but this material has not hitherto been well integrated, so the interpretations of key localities by different teams remain contradictory. We have reviewed and synthesized this evidence, combining it with new investigations targeted at key areas of uncertainty. This work has led to the inference of previously unrecognized active faults and has clarified the roles of other structures within the framework of plate motions provided by GPS studies. Roughly one third of the relative motion between the Turkish and Arabian plates is accommodated on the Misis-Kyrenia Fault Zone, which links to the study region from the Kyrenia mountain range of northern Cyprus. Much of this motion passes NNE then eastward around the northern limit of the Amanos Mountains, as previously thought, but some of it splays northeastward to link into newly-recognised normal faulting within the Amanos Mountains. The remaining two thirds of the relative motion is accommodated along the Karasu Valley; some of this component steps leftward across the Amik Basin before passing southward onto the northern Dead Sea Fault Zone (DSFZ) but much of it continues southwestward, past the city of Antakya, then into offshore structures, ultimately linking Central-southern Turkey and northwest Syria; Page 2; 30/12/2013 to the subduction zone bounding the Turkish and African plates to the southwest of Cyprus.However, some of this offshore motion continues southward, west of the Syrian coast, before linking onshore into the southern DSFZ; this component of the relative motion is indeed the main reason why the slip rate on the northern DSFZ, measured geodetically, is so much lower than that on its southern counterpart. In some parts of this region, notably in the Karasu Valley, it is now clear how the expected relative plate motion has been accommodated on active faults during much of the Quaternary: rather than constant slip rates on individual faults, quite complex changes in the partitioning of this motion on timescales of hundreds of thousands of years are indicated. However, in other parts of the region it remains unclear whether additional major active faults remain unrecognised or whether significant relative motions are accommodated by distributed deformation or on the many smaller-scale structures present. Highlights

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Section: Faulting Offshore Of the Syrian Coastmentioning

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“…Кроме того, для образца раковин Mya truncata (L.), отобранного с площадки морской террасы уровня 80 м равнины Профильстранда, получена 14 Морские террасы -преимущественно абразионные. Цоколем террас служат рифейские песчаники и кварциты.…”

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“…Предполагается, что сопо-ставление активностей радионуклидов и их соотношений во внутренних и внеш-них слоях раковин позволяет оценить степень достоверности получаемых возраст-ных данных. Поэтому мы провели радиометрическое определение изотопов урана и тория во внешних и внутренних фракциях образцов раковин с применением радиохимической методики [13,14], включающей следующие этапы:…”

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Uranium-thorium dating of high sea terraces of the Spitsbergen Archipelago

Максимов¹,

Sharin²,

Kuznetsov³

et al. 2016

Vestnik SPbSU. Series 7. Geology. Geography

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Chronology of the Mediterranean sea‐level highstand during the Last Interglacial: a critical review of the U/Th‐dated deposits

Pasquetti

Bini

Giaccio

et al. 2021

J Quaternary Science

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Relative sea‐level (RSL) evolution during Marine Isotopic Stage (MIS) 5 in the Mediterranean basin is still not fully understood despite a plethora of morphological, stratigraphic and geochronological studies carried out on highstand deposits of this area. In this review we assembled a database of 323 U/Th‐dated samples (e.g. corals, molluscs, speleothems) which were used to chronologically constrain RSL evolution within MIS 5. The application of strict geochemical criteria to the U/Th samples indicates that only ~33% of data available for the Mediterranean Sea can be considered ‘reliable’. Most of these data (~65%) refer to the MIS 5e highstand, while only ~17% could be related to the MIS 5a. No attribution to MIS 5c can be unequivocally supported. Nevertheless, the resulting framework does not allow us to define a satisfactory RSL trend during the MIS 5e highstand and subsequent MIS 5 substages. Overall, the proposed selection of reliable/unreliable data would be useful for detecting areas where MIS 5 substage attributions are not supported by confident U/Th chronological data and thus the related reconstructions need to be revised. In this regard, the resulting framework calls for a reappraisal and re‐examination of the Mediterranean records with advanced geochronological methodologies.

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Late Quaternary marine terraces in the Mediterranean coastal area of Syria: Geochronology and neotectonics

Cited by 18 publications

References 5 publications

The kinematics of central-southern Turkey and northwest Syria revisited

The kinematics of central-southern Turkey and northwest Syria revisited

Uranium-thorium dating of high sea terraces of the Spitsbergen Archipelago

Chronology of the Mediterranean sea‐level highstand during the Last Interglacial: a critical review of the U/Th‐dated deposits

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