The Cilicia–Adana basin complex, Eastern Mediterranean: Neogene evolution of an active fore-arc basin in an obliquely convergent margin

SARchaeology—Detecting Palaeochannels Based on High Resolution Radar Data and Their Impact of Changes in the Settlement Pattern in Cilicia (Turkey)

“…These rivers form the deltaic complex that occupies the Adana Basin ( Figure 2). The Adana Basin represents the onshore extension of the marine Cilicia Basin [11] to Recent [12] (p. 190) and is built by alluvial variable grainsize deposits [13] (p. 135). All rivers are braided in their upper reaches with channel gradients ranging from 1:40 to 1:400, while the channel gradients decrease to >1:2000 in the lower 35-110 km of their courses, causing them to meander [14] (p. 57).…”

Early-to-mid Pleistocene Tectonic Transition Across the Eastern Mediterranean Influences the Course of Human History

“…Deformations were also recorded in the marine surroundings of Cyprus, from Iskenderun through Adana-Cilicia to Antalya basins, and along the Larnaka and Latakia Ridges. In these regions, which were studied in detail in the last decade, the Pliocene-Quaternary is interpreted as a single seismic stratigraphic unit (Unit 1 in Aksu et al, 2005a;Aksu et al, 2005b;Burton-Ferguson et al, 2005;Calon et al, 2005a;Calon et al, 2005b;Hall et al, 2005a;Hall et al, 2005b;Isler et al, 2005;Aksu et al, 2009;Hall et al, 2009). In light of the findings brought here the young fill of these basins should be reexamined.…”

Structural architecture of the Rhodes Basin: A deep depocentre that evolved since the Pliocene at the junction of Hellenic and Cyprus Arcs, eastern Mediterranean

“…The evaporites were deposited during the desiccation of the Mediterranean associated with the Messinian salinity crises (e.g., Cita et al, 1978). Elsewhere in the eastern Mediterranean basins, two prominent seismic markers, the M-and N-reflectors, define the top and base of the Messinian evaporite succession, respectively (e.g., Ryan and Hsü,1973;Aksu et al, 2005;Işler et al, 2005). However, in regions where the evaporites are absent, such as the Rhodes Basin (e.g., Woodside et al, 2000), the hiatus is still marked by a regionally continuous and strong M-reflector that delineates a prominent angular unconformity at the base of the Pliocene-Quaternary succession .…”