Neotectonic map of Syria and some aspects of Late Cenozoic evolution of the northwestern boundary zone of the Arabian plate

Rukieh, M.; Трифонов, В. Г.; Dodonov, A.E.; Minini, H.; Ammar, Osama; Ivanova, T. P.; Zaza, T.; Yusef, A.; Al-Shara, M.; Jobaili, Y.

doi:10.1016/j.jog.2005.07.016

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“…This tectonic zone was previously considered to be inactive (cf. Rukieh et al, 2005) but, from the newly recognized fluvial archive data, can now be recognized as a potential cause of historic earthquakes in the Damascus-Palmyra region as well as a future seismic hazard.…”

Section: Effects Of Tectonic Activitymentioning

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River terrace development in the NE Mediterranean region (Syria and Turkey): Patterns in relation to crustal type

Bridgland

Demi̇r

Seyrek

et al. 2017

Quaternary Science Reviews

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(2017) 'River terrace development in the NE Mediterranean region (Syria and Turkey) : patterns in relation to crustal type.', Quaternary science reviews., 166 . pp. 307-323. Further information on publisher's website: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. JQSR-D-16-00142I am resubmitting our paper for the FLAG special issue od QSR: River terrace development in the NE Mediterranean region (Syria and Turkey): patterns in relation to crustal typePlease note tat the title has been changed to reflect the main thrust of the revision, which, based on advice from the reviewers and from the Guest Editor, gives emphasis to the patterns of archive preservation in relation to crustal type.The resubmission includes a 'response to reviews' document and a colour$coded annotated version of te new text, as well as a clean copy.I hope that this will prove acceptable. Many thanks Yours faithfullyDavid Bridgland It is widely recognized that the optimal development of river terraces globally has been in the temperate latitudes, with NW and Central Europe being areas of particular importance for the preservation of such archives of Quaternary environmental change. There is also a growing consensus that the principal drivers of terrace formation have been climatic fluctuation against a background of progressive (but variable) uplift. Nonetheless river terraces are widely preserved in the Mediterranean region, where they have often been attributed to the effects of neotectonic activity, with a continuing debate about the relative significance of fluctuating temperature (glacials-interglacials) and precipitation (pluvialsinterpluvials). Research in Syria and southern-central Turkey (specifically in the valleys of the Tigris and Ceyhan in Turkey, the Kebir in Syria and the trans-border rivers Orontes and Euphrates) has underlined the importance of uplift rates in dictating the preservation pattern of fluvial archives and has revealed different patterns that can be related to crustal type. The NE Mediterranean coastal region has experienced unusually rapid uplift in the Late Quaternary. The relation between the Kebir terraces and the staircase of interglacial raised beaches preserved along the Mediterranean coastline of NW Syria reinforces previous conclusions that the emplacement of the fluvial terrace deposits in the Mediterranean has occurred during colder climatic episodes. Department of Geography

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Section: Effects Of Tectonic Activitymentioning

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River terrace development in the NE Mediterranean region (Syria and Turkey): Patterns in relation to crustal type

Bridgland

Demi̇r

Seyrek

et al. 2017

Quaternary Science Reviews

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“…1;Ç apan et al, 1987;Giannérini et al, 1988;Garfunkel, 1989;Heimann and Ron, 1993;Mor, 1993;Ilani et al, 2001), post-dating the break-up of Africa and Arabia, opening of the Red Sea and Oligocene flood volcanism in Yemen and Ethiopia (e.g., Baker et al, 1997;Rukieh et al, 2005).…”

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“…During the Cenozoic, the northward drift of the Arabian plate caused tectonic reorganization, more or less contemporaneous with igneous activity (Giannérini et al, 1988;Zanchi et al, 2002;Rukieh et al, 2005). The main stages are: (a) the development of the DST (also known as the Levantine fault system), a sinistral strike-slip fault with a total length of about 1000 km and a total displacement of about 105 km (e.g., Garfunkel, 1981;LePichon and Gaulier, 1988;Heimann and Ron, 1993;Sobolev et al, 2005; Fig.…”

Section: Geological Backgroundmentioning

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Neogene volcanic activity of western Syria and its relationship with Arabian plate kinematics

Lustrino

Шарков

2006

Journal of Geodynamics

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“…This segment of the DST formed in the Pliocene, 4 Ma to 3.5 Ma [21,22]. The average rate of Pliocene-Quaternary sinistral slip has been estimated in two ways.…”

Section: The El Ghab Segment Of the Dead Sea Transform In Eastern Medmentioning

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“…The aqueduct is offset at approximately 12 m [21,22] or 13.6 ± 0.2 m, if one adds a bend of the aqueduct near the fault that Meghraoui et al [27] considered to be tectonic. The aqueduct was built in the I century BC to I century AD, but not earlier than 63 BC [27,28].…”

Section: The El Ghab Segment Of the Dead Sea Transform In Eastern Medmentioning

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Recent geodynamics of major strike-slip zones

Трифонов

Корженков

Omar

2015

Geodesy and Geodynamics

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Active strike-slip faults Historical seismicity Paleoseismicity Temporal variations of focal mechanisms of earthquakes Rates of accumulation of strike-slip deformation a b s t r a c t The subject of this study is strike-slip fault zones, where temporal variations of accumulation in strike-slip deformation complicate the standard process of deformation accumulation and release during strong earthquakes. These temporal variations are expressed in the El Ghab segment of the Dead Sea Transform zone (DST, Eastern Mediterranean) and in the Talas-Fergana fault zone (Central Asia). According to Global Positioning System (GPS)data, the strike-slip deformations within these zones are not now accumulating or are accumulating at a rate that is significantly less than their average rate during the Holocene and Quaternary or the PlioceneeQuaternary. Simultaneously, weak transverse shortening has been measured in both zones by GPS. In both of these zones, strong earthquakes have not registered within the XX century, yet epochs of intensified seismicity (strong earthquakes) took place throughout history. In the southern and central parts of the El Ghab zone, there is evidence of 30 strong historical earthquakes of Ms ! 5.7; however, no instrumental earthquakes of Ms ! 5 have been identified. The temporal distribution of seismic energy released by these earthquakes demonstrates a 350 ± 50-year cycle. Values for the seismic energies released during the peak phases of these cycles are approximated by a sinusoid that suggests the possibility of a !1800-year cycle ("hyper-cycle"), which began around the 3rd century, reached its maximum in the 12th century, and has continued until now. A combination of geological, archaeoseismological, and geodetic data show that the rate of sinistral strike-slip deformation varied in the fault zone, probably in conformity with the variation of seismicity during the "hyper-cycle." In the Talas-Fergana fault zone, trenching and 14 C dating that was correlated with right lateral offsets, gave a possible preliminary estimate of the average rates of the Late Holocene strike slip of about 10 mm per year, with a decrease in the SE direction to 4 mme4.5 mm per year. These studies also showed that the slip in the Talas-Fergana fault zone was realized mainly during strong earthquakes. New trenching and 14 C dating of paleoearthquake records identified the epoch of seismicity intensification dating to the XIVeXVII centuries. These paleoearthquakes could produce a total dextral slip at several meters. Therefore, consideration of these epochs was necessary to determine a calculated average slip rate during the Late Holocene.The main shock and the strongest aftershocks of the Altai earthquake of September 27, 2003, with Ms ¼ 7.0 demonstrated a strike-slip focal mechanism with an NW-trending

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Neotectonic map of Syria and some aspects of Late Cenozoic evolution of the northwestern boundary zone of the Arabian plate

Cited by 59 publications

References 41 publications

River terrace development in the NE Mediterranean region (Syria and Turkey): Patterns in relation to crustal type

River terrace development in the NE Mediterranean region (Syria and Turkey): Patterns in relation to crustal type

Neogene volcanic activity of western Syria and its relationship with Arabian plate kinematics

Recent geodynamics of major strike-slip zones

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