Cenozoic cooling histories in the Menderes Massif, western Turkey, may be caused by erosion and flat subduction, not low-angle normal faulting

2006 ◽  
Vol 412 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Westaway
Keyword(s):  
Normal Faulting ◽  
Western Turkey ◽  
Menderes Massif

scholarly journals Spatiotemporal evolution of brittle normal faulting and fluid infiltration in detachment fault systems: A case study from the Menderes Massif, western Turkey

Tectonics ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Hetzel ◽  
Horst Zwingmann ◽  
Andreas Mulch ◽  
Klaus Gessner ◽  
Cüneyt Akal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Detachment Fault ◽  
Normal Faulting ◽  
Spatiotemporal Evolution ◽  
Western Turkey ◽  
Menderes Massif ◽  
Fault Systems ◽  
Fluid Infiltration

scholarly journals Seismicity, focal mechanism, and stress tensor analysis of the Simav region, western Turkey

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 479-490
Author(s):  
Ahu Kömeç Mutlu
Keyword(s):  
Moment Tensor ◽  
Aftershock Sequence ◽  
Movement Direction ◽  
Normal Faults ◽  
Normal Faulting ◽  
Stress Inversion ◽  
Western Turkey ◽  
Stress Orientations ◽  
Extension Direction ◽  
Inversion Analysis

AbstractThis study focuses on the seismicity and stress inversion analysis of the Simav region in western Turkey. The latest moderate-size earthquake was recorded on May 19, 2011 (Mw 5.9), with a dense aftershock sequence of more than 5,000 earthquakes in 6 months. Between 2004 and 2018, data from earthquake events with magnitudes greater than 0.7 were compiled from 86 seismic stations. The source mechanism of 54 earthquakes with moment magnitudes greater than 3.5 was derived by using a moment tensor inversion. Normal faults with oblique-slip motions are dominant being compatible with the NE-SW extension direction of western Turkey. The regional stress field is assessed from focal mechanisms. Vertically oriented maximum compressional stress (σ1) is consistent with the extensional regime in the region. The σ1 and σ3 stress axes suggest the WNW-ESE compression and the NNE-SSW dilatation. The principal stress orientations support the movement direction of the NE-SW extension consistent with the mainly observed normal faulting motions.

Tectonic evolution of the Gediz Graben: field evidence for an episodic, two-stage extension in western Turkey

2004 ◽  
Vol 141 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERDİN BOZKURT ◽  
HASAN SÖZBİLİR
Keyword(s):  
Normal Fault ◽  
Geological Mapping ◽  
Normal Faults ◽  
High Angle ◽  
Western Turkey ◽  
Menderes Massif ◽  
Total Displacement ◽  
Field Evidence ◽  
Back Arc ◽  
Short Time

Western Turkey is one of the most spectacular regions of widespread active continental extension in the world. The most prominent structures of this region are E–W-trending grabens (e.g. Gediz and Büyük Menderes grabens) and intervening horsts, exposing the Menderes Massif. This paper documents the result of a recent field campaign (field geological mapping and structural analysis) along the southern margin of the modern Gediz Graben of Pliocene (∼ 5 Ma) age. This work provides field evidence that the presently low-angle ductile-brittle detachment fault is cut and displaced by the high-angle graben-bounding normal faults with total displacement exceeding 2.0 km. The evolution of the N–S extension along the Gediz Graben occurred during two episodes, each characterized by a distinct structural styles: (1) rapid exhumation of Menderes Massif in the footwall of low-angle normal fault (core-complex mode) during the Miocene; (2) late stretching of crust producing E–W grabens along high-angle normal faults (rift mode) during Pliocene–Quaternary times, separated by a short-time gap. The later phase is characterized by the deposition of now nearly horizontal sediments of Pliocene age in the hanging walls of the high-angle normal faults and present-day graben floor sediments. The evolution of extension is at variance with orogenic collapse and/or back-arc extension followed by the combined effect of tectonic escape and subduction rollback processes along the Aegean-Cyprean subduction zone. Consequently, it is misleading to describe the Miocene sediments exhumed on shoulders of the Gediz Graben as simple graben fill.

Geochemistry, geochronology, and cathodoluminescence imagery of the Salihli and Turgutlu granites (central Menderes Massif, western Turkey): Implications for Aegean tectonics

2010 ◽  
Vol 488 (1-4) ◽  
pp. 110-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth J. Catlos ◽  
Courteney Baker ◽  
Sorena S. Sorensen ◽  
Ibrahim Çemen ◽  
Mete Hançer
Keyword(s):  
Western Turkey ◽  
Menderes Massif
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