International Geophysical Conference and Oil & Gas Exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey, 17-19 September 2012, 2012
Summary Basins. South of this zone, lie the Iskenderun, Latakia, and Mesaoria Basins, together wi... more Summary Basins. South of this zone, lie the Iskenderun, Latakia, and Mesaoria Basins, together with the outer part of the Antalya Basin. South of the AmanosLarnaka Fault Zo ne lays the Cyprus Basin. South of the Tartus Ridge lies the Levantine Basin on the northern margin of the African plate. The Structure of the Eastern Mediterranean from the Gravity Data The Eastern Mediterranean Sea is dominated by elongated NESW trending depressions, known as the Herodotus Abyssal Plain, with Bouguer gravity maximum of approximately 220 mGal. Due to the increasing sediment thickness to the east the anomalies decrease eastwards and range between 80 and 20 mGal for offshore Israel and Lebanon. Eratosthenes Seamount is a continental fragment with crustal thickness of 24 km. It does not exhibit a pronounced gravity expression, while Cyprus, with a continental crust of 30�32 km, has high positive Bouguer gravity values of approximately 130 mGal caused by overthrust ophiolites. The deep parts of the Levantine Basin and partly the Herodotus Abyssal Plain are covered by up to 15 km of thick sediments. The crust is oceanic and approximately 5 to 6 km in thickness, with abrupt transition to continental margin to the east indicating the existence of a shear zone.
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