Tracing the middle strand of the North Anatolian Fault Zone through the southern Sea of Marmara based on seismic reflection studies |
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Authors: | C Kurtulu? M M Canbay |
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Institution: | (1) Engineering Faculty of Geophysics, Kocaeli University, 41040 Izmit-Kocaeli, Turkey |
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Abstract: | We studied the active deformation zone of the middle strand of the North Anatolian Fault Zone through the southern part of
the Sea of Marmara by means of high-resolution as well as deep seismic reflection data. Our main objective was to investigate
the active deformation within the uppermost sedimentary layers at high resolution as well as deeper sedimentary layers, focusing
on the tectonic and stratigraphic setting between Gemlik and Bandırma. The middle strand of the North Anatolian Fault reaching
the Gulf of Gemlik is a main fault which has a lazy-S shape in the Gulf of Gemlik, and extends westwards to Bandırma as a
main fault which is an E–W-trending single right-lateral fault controlling the zone along the Gemlik and Bandırma sub-basins.
Small-scale faults, consistent with a dextral shear regime, are present in the vicinity of the main fault. Several oblique
fault groups parallel to the main fault were detected. The deformation in the Gulf of Gemlik is characterized by a series
of synthetic and antithetic faults emanating from the main fault. The boundary faults in the Gulf of Gemlik have a compressive
component, which indicates the sill areas of the gulfs of Gemlik and Bandırma to be push-up structures. Four seismic stratigraphic
units were identified in the sediments of the gulfs of Gemlik and Bandırma, providing evidence of tectonic influence. The
present tectonic structure between Gemlik and Bandırma is not a pull-apart structure. The microseismic study in this area
has shown that fault planes are either strike-slip or compressional, and that the stress tensor is compatible with pure strike-slip
in the E–W fault system. |
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