Deformational behaviour of continental lithosphere deduced from block rotations across the North Anatolian fault zone in Turkey

Details Deformational behaviour of continental lithosphere deduced from block rotations across the North Anatolian fault zone in Turkey Deformational behaviour of continental lithosphere deduced from block rotations across the North Anatolian fault zone in Turkey

Aug 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997e%26psl.150..191p&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 150, Issue 3, p. 191-203.

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Theoretical considerations of lithosphere deformation across transform plate boundaries predict an expression in terms of 3istributed deformation. The magnitude of rotation is expected to diminish away from the fault zone in a way which depends on the length of the fault, the amount of displacement, and the ductility of the lithosphere. Palaeomagnetic studies across the North Anatolian transform fault zone, which separates the Eurasian Plate and Anatolian Block in northern Turkey, show that clockwise rotations predicted from the sense of dextral motion are indeed present and have attained finite rotations of up to 270° during the ∼ 5 Ma history of Neotectonic deformation. Such rotations are, however, confined to narrow ( ∼ 10 km wide) zones between system-bounding faults and appear to have resulted from rotation in ball-bearing fashion of equidimensional blocks a few kilometres in size. Outside of this zone only anticlockwise rotations are observed; these are unrelated to deformation across the fault zone and record regional anticlockwise rotation of Turkey which is complementing clockwise rotation of Greece and accompanying Neogene opening of the Aegean Sea. The observed behaviour of continental lithosphere satisfies no plausible value of power law behaviour. We therefore conclude that relative motion across this transform boundary occurs as a discrete zone of intense deformation within a brittle layer comprising the seismogenic upper crust. This is presumed to be detached from a continuum deformation response to shearing in the lower crust and mantle beneath.

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