New Frontiers in Tectonic Research - At the Midst of Plate Convergence

Preface New Frontiers in Tectonic Research - At the Midst of Plate Convergence......Page 1 Part 1 Margins of the Western Mediterranean ......Page 13 1 Tectonic Evolution of the Active "Chelif" Basin (Northern Algeria) From Paleomagnetic and Magnetic Fabric Investigations ......Page 15 2 Tunisian Transtensive Basins in Tethyan Geodynamic Context and their Post-tortonian Inversion ......Page 39 3 The Chotts Fold Belt of Southern Tunisia, North African Margin: Structural Pattern, Evolution, and Regional Geodynamic Implications ......Page 61 4 Interplay between Tectonics and Mount Etna’s Volcanism: Insights into the Geometry of the Plumbing System ......Page 85 5 Transtensional Tectonics Played a Key Role During the Variscan Cycle in the Sardinia-Corsica Massif ......Page 117 6 Relationships between Lithospheric Flexure, Thrust Tectonics and Stratigraphic Sequences in Foreland Setting: the Southern Apennines Foreland Basin System, Italy ......Page 133 Part 2 Around the Adriatic......Page 183 7 Two Tectonic Geomorphology Studies on the Landscape and Drainage Network of Chain and Piedmont Areas of the Abruzzi Region (Central Apennines, Italy) ......Page 185 8 Neogene Tectonics in Croatian Part of the Pannonian Basin and Reflectance in Hydrocarbon Accumulations ......Page 227 Part 3 Dynamics of the Eastern Mediterranean......Page 251 9 Architecture of Kinematics and Deformation History of the Tertiary Supradetachment Thrace Basin: Rhodope Province (NE Greece)......Page 253 10 . The North Anatolian Fault Zone: an Evaluation of Earthquake Hazard Parameters ......Page 281 11 Tectonic Escape Mechanism in the Crustal Evolution of Eastern Anatolian Region (Turkey) ......Page 301 12 Early-to-mid Pleistocene Tectonic Transition Across the Eastern Mediterranean Influences the Course of Human History......Page 315 Part 4 The Persian Gulf ......Page 335 13 The Qatar–South Fars Arch Development (Arabian Platform, Persian Gulf): Insights from Seismic Interpretation and Analogue Modelling ......Page 337 Ocean closure involves a variety of converging tectonic processes that reshape shrinking basins, their adjacent margins and the entire earth underneath. Following continental breakup, margin formation and sediment accumulation, tectonics normally relaxes and the margins become passive for millions of years. However, when final convergence is at the gate, the passive days of any ocean and its margins are over or soon will be. The fate of the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf is seemingly known beforehand, as they are nestled in the midst of Africa-Arabia plate convergence with Eurasia. Over millions of years through the Cenozoic era they progressively shriveled, leaving only a glimpse of the Tethys Ocean. Eventually, the basins will adhere to the Alpine-Himalaya orogen and dissipate. This book focuses on a unique stage in the ocean closure process, when significant convergence already induced major deformations, yet the inter-plate basins and margins still record the geological history