Doğu Akdeniz’de Geç Holosen’de Yükselmiş Kıyı Çizgileri Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme
In this paper, a series of elevated shorelines uplifted during historical periods, on many sites of the eastern Mediterranean basin were reviewed. The area extending from central Greece to Levant have long been interpreted as representing occurrence of the rapid coseismic displacements during the La...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Ankara University
2008-04-01
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| Series: | Coğrafi Bilimler Dergisi |
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| Online Access: | https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/aucbd/issue/44481/551382 |
| Summary: | In this paper, a series of elevated shorelines uplifted during historical periods, on many sites of the eastern Mediterranean basin were reviewed. The area extending from central Greece to Levant have long been interpreted as representing occurrence of the rapid coseismic displacements during the Late Holocene rather than representing eustatic sea-level changes of climatic origin. The uplifted shorelines including western half of the Crete, Antikythira, Ionian Islands, Gulf of Corinth, Thessalia, Alanya, and the Levant coasts, have been radiocarbon dated to between the middle of the 4th and the middle of the 6th century AD. Data derived from both the historical records and the geomorphological (elevated notches, benches etc.)-biological (Chthamalus, Dendropoma petraeum, Lithophaga, Neogoniolithon notarisii, Oysters, Serpulids, Vermetids etc.) precise sealevel indicators confirm that in the eastern Mediterranean area at least 1500 km wide, a major tectonic period occurred in that time period and called the Early Byzantine Tectonic Paroxysm. The tectonic paroxysm, provided the uplifting of the shorelines at about 0.5 to 1 m, was probably caused by collisional processes between the African plate and the Aegean-Anatolian microplate and resulted in a sudden narrowing of the Eastern Mediterranean basin succeeding a subduction thrust of the oceanic African crust beneath the South Aegean Arc and a consequent readjustment of the various blocks of lithosphere bordering the eastern Mediterranean basin |
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| ISSN: | 1303-5851 1308-9765 |