Active seismotectonics of the East Anatolian fault

SE Güvercin, H Karabulut, AÖ Konca… - Geophysical Journal …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
SUMMARY The East Anatolian Fault (EAF) is a 700-km-long left-lateral transform fault
located between the Anatolian and Arabian plates. The proximity of the Euler Pole to the …

Marine transform faults and fracture zones: a joint perspective integrating seismicity, fluid flow and life

C Hensen, JC Duarte, P Vannucchi, A Mazzini… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Marine transform faults and associated fracture zones (MTFFZs) cover vast stretches of the
ocean floor, where they play a key role in plate tectonics, accommodating the lateral …

Characterization of the co-seismic pattern and slip distribution of the February 06, 2023, Kahramanmaraş (Turkey) earthquakes (Mw 7.7 and Mw 7.6) with a dense …

A Özkan, Hİ Solak, İ Tiryakioğlu, MD Şentürk, B Aktuğ… - Tectonophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
Two consecutive earthquakes with the magnitudes of M w 7.7 and 7.6 (February 06, 2023)
occurred on the East Anatolian Fault Zone (EAFZ) segments and unfortunately resulted in …

The sharp turn: Backward rupture branching during the 2023 Mw 7.8 Kahramanmaraş (Türkiye) earthquake

X Ding, S Xu, Y Xie, M Van den Ende, J Premus… - Seismica, 2023 - hal.science
Multiple lines of evidence indicate that the 2023 Mw 7.8 Kahramanmaraş (Türkiye)
earthquake started on a splay fault, then branched bilaterally onto the nearby East Anatolian …

Kinematics of the Kahramanmaraş triple junction and of Cyprus: evidence of shear partitioning

V Özbey, AMC Sengör, P Henry… - BSGF-Earth …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Triple junctions involving convergent plate boundaries extend beyond local implications,
which is crucial for studying the geology of convergent plate boundary zones. However …

Along‐Strike Variation of Rupture Characteristics and Aftershock Patterns of the 2023  7.8 Türkiye Earthquake Controlled by Fault Structure

Z Wan, R Dong, D Wang, S Xu… - Seismological …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
On 6 February 2023, an M w 7.8 earthquake occurred along the East Anatolian fault zone
(EAFZ) in southeastern Türkiye, representing the strongest earthquake in the region in …

A new approach to the opening of the eastern Mediterranean Sea and the origin of the Hellenic Subduction Zone. Part 1: The eastern Mediterranean Sea

X Le Pichon, AMC Şengör… - Canadian Journal of Earth …, 2019 - cdnsciencepub.com
We identify long transform faults that frame the eastern Mediterranean Sea and that were
active during Jurassic and probably the Early Cretaceous, during the opening of the central …

From dextral contraction to sinistral extension of intracontinental transform structures in the Yanshan and northern Taihang Mountain belts during Early Cretaceous …

Y Lin, C Zhang, C Li, H Deng - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Mesozoic tectonics of the North China Craton (NCC) is characterized by craton modification
and destruction that resulted in varied degrees of craton instability. The change from the end …

When did the North Anatolian fault reach southern Marmara, Turkey?

V Karabacak, T Sançar, G Yildirim, IT Uysal - Geology, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We dated syntectonic calcites on fault planes from the southern branch of the western North
Anatolian fault (NAF) in northern Turkey using U-Th geochronology. We selected strike-slip …

Deep structure of the Demerara Plateau and its two-fold tectonic evolution: from a volcanic margin to a transform marginal plateau, insights from the Conjugate Guinea …

D Graindorge, T Museur, F Klingelhoefer, WR Roest… - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Transform marginal plateaus (TMPs) are large and flat structures commonly found in deep
oceanic domains, but their origin and relationship to adjacent oceanic lithosphere remain …