Uniform basin growth over the last 500 ka, North Anatolian Fault, Marmara Sea, Turkey


Sorlien C. C., Akhun S. D., Seeber L., Steckler M. S., Shillington D. J., Kurt H., ...Daha Fazla

TECTONOPHYSICS, cilt.518, ss.1-16, 2012 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 518
  • Basım Tarihi: 2012
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.10.006
  • Dergi Adı: TECTONOPHYSICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-16
  • Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Much of the northern strand of the North Anatolia Fault system in the Marmara Sea, the Main Marmara fault, is a seismic gap, posing a high risk for Istanbul. Deep bathymetric and sedimentary basins are structurally associated with the Main Marmara fault. Basin growth including tilting of their margins is thus linked to fault slip through releasing and restraining segments of this and other branches of the North Anatolian Fault system. Whether this system has been steady state through at least the last half of the Quaternary, or whether the Main Marmara fault more recently propagated through and deactivated pull-apart basins is one of the main controversies.