Age and mantle sources of Quaternary basalts associated with "leaky" transform faults of the migrating Anatolia-Arabia-Africa triple junction

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2021-02-01

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Cosca, Michael A.
Reid, Mary
Delphi, Jonathan R.
KUŞCU, GONCA
Blichert-Toft, Janne
Premo, Wayne
Whitney, Donna L.
Teyssier, Christian
Rojay, Fuat Bora

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The Anatolia (Eurasia), Arabia, and Africa tectonic plates intersect in southeast Turkey, near the Gulf of Iskenderun, forming a tectonically active and unstable triple junction (the A(3) triple junction). The plate boundaries are marked by broad zones of major, dominantly left-lateral transform faults including the East Anatolian fault zone (the Anatolia-Arabia boundary) and the Dead Sea fault zone (the Arabia-Africa boundary). Quaternary basalts occur locally within these "leaky" transform fault zones (similar to those observed within oceanic transform faults), providing evidence that mantle melting, basalt genesis, and eruption are linked to crustal deformation and faulting that extends into the upper mantle. We investigated samples of alkaline basalt (including basanite) from the Toprakkale and Karasu volcanic fields within a broad zone of transtension associated with these plate-boundary faults near the Iskenderun and Amik Basins, respectively.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/89456

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GEOSPHERE

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https://doi.org/10.1130/ges02266.1

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M. A. Cosca et al., “Age and mantle sources of Quaternary basalts associated with “leaky” transform faults of the migrating Anatolia-Arabia-Africa triple junction,” GEOSPHERE, pp. 69–94, 2021, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/89456.