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| Title | Seismic stratigraphy of the Tyrrhenian Sea (western Mediterranean Sea) based on ODP leg results: Consequences for the basin evolution |
| Creator/Author | Mascle, J. ; Rehault, J. |
| Publication Date | 1988 Aug 01 |
| OSTI Identifier | OSTI ID: 5717591 |
| Report Number(s) | CONF-8809346- |
| Other Number(s) | Journal ID: CODEN: AABUD |
| Resource Type | Conference |
| Specific Type | Journal Article |
| Resource Relation | Journal Name: AAPG Bull.; (United States); Journal Volume: 72:8; Conference: Mediterranean Basins conference and exhibition, Nice, France, 25-28 Sep 1988 |
| Research Org | Laboratorie de Geodynamique Sous-Marine, Villefranche suf Mer (France) |
| Subject | 02 PETROLEUM; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SEISMIC SURVEYS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; GEOLOGIC FAULTS; RIFT ZONES; SEDIMENTARY BASINS; GEOLOGIC FRACTURES; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; GEOLOGY; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS; SEAS; SURFACE WATERS; SURVEYS |
| Description/Abstract | A revision of the seismic stratigraphy of the Tyrrehenian Sea is based on detailed calibrations between a dense network of single-channel seismic reflection lines, about 2,000 km of recent multichannel seismic profiles, and the seven sites drilled within the Tyrrhenian in 1986 during the Ocean Drilling Program Leg 107. These correlations substantiate that the basin has been submitted to a succession of short-lived rifting episodes progressively shifting toward the southeast and leading to the local creation of discrete oceanic crust floored basins. Most of the Tyr-rhenian basins and margins have been created in a very short time (between 8 and 2 m.y. in age) and are much younger than previously anticipated. Rifting processes have been acting on a very heterogeneous continental basement (including several suture zones); drifting has created small oceanic subbasins also floored by a very heterogeneous magmatic basement (including serpentinized peridotites). The hypothesis of an asymmetric evolution facilitated by one or several crustal detachment fault systems and driven by geodynamic mechanisms of the bordering collision/subduction is considered. |
| Country of Publication | United States |
| Language | English |
| Format | Medium: X; Size: Pages: 1013 |
| System Entry Date | 2008 Feb 07 |
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