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Slab detachment beneath eastern Anatolia: A possible cause for the formation of the North Anatolian fault
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In this article, the authors discuss the possibility that the North Anatolian fault (NAF) results from the deep deformation of the slab beneath the Bitlis-Hellenic subduction zone.About:
This article is published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.The article was published on 2006-02-15. It has received 348 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Slab pull & Slab window.read more
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Zagros orogeny: a subduction-dominated process
Philippe Agard,Jafar Omrani,Laurent Jolivet,Hubert Whitechurch,Bruno Vrielynck,Wim Spakman,Patrick Monié,Bertrand Meyer,Rinus Wortel +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a synthetic view of the geodynamic evolution of the Zagros orogen within the frame of the Arabia-Eurasia collision, and provided lithospheric-scale reconstructions of the zagros Orogen from ~ 150 to 0 Ma across two SW-NE transects.
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Building the Zagros collisional orogen: Timing, strain distribution and the dynamics of Arabia/Eurasia plate convergence
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that only 42% of the post-35 Ma convergence is partitioned by shortening within central Iran, and the current subduction dynamics can be explained by the original lateral difference in the buoyancy of the distal margin.
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Aegean tectonics: Strain localisation, slab tearing and trench retreat
Laurent Jolivet,Claudio Faccenna,Benjamin Huet,Loïc Labrousse,Laetitia Le Pourhiet,Olivier Lacombe,Emmanuel Lecomte,E. Burov,Yoann Denèle,Jean-Pierre Brun,Melody Philippon,Anne Paul,G. Salaün,Hayrullah Karabulut,Claudia Piromallo,Patrick Monié,Frédéric Gueydan,Aral I. Okay,Roland Oberhänsli,Amaury Pourteau,Romain Augier,Leslie Gadenne,Olivier Driussi +22 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the geodynamic evolution of the Aegean-Anatolia region and discuss strain localisation there over geological times, and they favour a model where slab retreat is the main driving engine, and successive slab tearing episodes are the main causes of this stepwise strain localization and the inherited heterogeneity of the crust is a major factor for localising detachments.
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Arc-magmatism and subduction history beneath the Zagros Mountains, Iran: A new report of adakites and geodynamic consequences
Jafar Omrani,Philippe Agard,Hubert Whitechurch,Mathieu Benoit,Gaëlle Prouteau,Laurent Jolivet +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the key geodynamic constraints provided by the subduction-related magmatism of the upper plate, which shifted ~ 300 km inward from the SSMA to the UDMA at the end of the Mesozoic.
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Mantle dynamics in the Mediterranean
Claudio Faccenna,Thorsten W. Becker,Ludwig Auer,Andrea Billi,Lapo Boschi,Jean-Pierre Brun,Fabio A. Capitanio,Francesca Funiciello,Ferenc Horváth,Laurent Jolivet,Claudia Piromallo,Leigh H. Royden,Federico Rossetti,Enrico Serpelloni +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual and quantitative framework for the causes of surface deformation in the Mediterranean is discussed, which can be outlined by two, almost symmetric, upper mantle convection cells.
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Active tectonics of Mediterranean region
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined more than 100 fault plane solutions for earthquakes within the Alpide belt between the Mid-Atlantic ridge and Eastern Iran and found that the deformation at present occurring is the result of small continental plates moving away from Eastern Turkey and Western Iran.
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Active Tectonics of the Mediterranean Region
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined more than 100 fault plane solutions for earthquakes within the Alpide belt between the Mid-Atlantic ridge and Eastern Iran and found that the deformation at present occurring is the result of small continental plates moving away from Eastern Turkey and Western Iran.
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Global Positioning System constraints on plate kinematics and dynamics in the eastern Mediterranean and Caucasus
Simon McClusky,S. Balassanian,Aykut Barka,Coskun Demir,Semih Ergintav,Ivan Georgiev,O. Gurkan,Michael W. Hamburger,K. Hurst,Hans-Gert Kahle,Kim A. Kastens,G. Kekelidze,Robert W. King,V. Kotzev,Onur Lenk,Salah Mahmoud,A. Mishin,M. Nadariya,A. Ouzounis,Demitris Paradissis,Yannick Peter,M. Prilepin,Robert Reilinger,I. Sanli,H. Seeger,A. Tealeb,M. N. Toksoz,G. Veis +27 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present and interpret GPS measurements of crustal motions for the period 1988-1997 at 189 sites extending east-west from the Caucasus mountains to the Adriatic Sea and north-south from the southern edge of the Eurasian plate to the northern edge of Africa.
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Strike-Slip Faulting and Related Basin Formation in Zones of Tectonic Escape: Turkey as a Case Study
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The hellenic arc and trench system: A key to the neotectonic evolution of the eastern mediterranean area
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the fault plane mechanisms of shallow earthquakes along the Hellenic arc and the extent of the intermediate seismic belt to make a quantitative estimate of the relative motion occurring between the Hellenians arc and adjacent sea floor.
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