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Taking the pulse of salt-detached gravity gliding in the eastern Mediterranean
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Authors
Sian Lianne Evans 
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Christopher Aiden-Lee Jackson ,
Davide Oppo
Abstract
We investigate early-stage salt-detached gliding using a 3D seismic dataset from the Levant Margin in the Eastern Mediterranean, where gravitational instability due to margin uplift has caused north-westward translation of the Messinian salt sheet and its Plio-Pleistocene clastic overburden. Large, NE-trending, base-salt anticlines have allowed the basinward translation to be recorded by the development of supra-salt ramp syncline basins and fluid escape pipes, the latter forming due to the leakage of gas and fluid from the anticline crests.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.31223/osf.io/5usv7
Subjects
Earth Sciences, Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Tectonics and Structure
Keywords
gravity gliding, levantine basin, salt tectonics
Dates
Published: 2020-08-06 00:54
Last Updated: 2021-07-21 21:45
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CC BY Attribution 4.0 International
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Data Availability (Reason not available):
Confidential data available on request from the Lebanese Petroleum Administration.
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