Archive of Geological and Geophysical papers of Eastern Mediterranean

Archive of the Geological and Geophysical papers of Eastern Mediterranean

Editor: Prof. Jamal Abou-Deeb, Geology Department, Damascus University

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The first Archive of the following Syrian Geological Studies site:

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This archive contains references to all the Eastern Mediterranean geological and geophysical papers published everywhere in all languages, but they are introduced here in English or French. They are arranged in an alphabet order of the authors.


-Aal, A. A., El Barkooky, A., Gerrits, M., Meyer, H., Schwander, M., and Zaki, H. (2000). Tectonic evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean basin and its significance for hydrocarbon prospectivity in the Ultra deep water of the Nile Delta. The Leading Edge, Vol. 19, No. 10, pp.1086-1102. doi:10.1190/1.1438485.

-Aal, A. A., El Barkooky, A., Gerrits, M., Meyer, H., Schwander, M., and Zaki, H. (2001). Tectonic evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean basin and its significance for hydrocarbon prospectivity in the Ultra deep water of the Nile Delta Deepwater Area. GeoArabia. Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 363-384. 

-Abd-Allah, A. M. A., El-Naby, A.A., Abdel, and Aal, M. H. (2001) Tectonic and basin evolution of Southeastern Mediterranean for hydrocarbon potentiality in North Sinai. Egypt J. Pet. Sci. Eng., Vol.  190:107080. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2020.107080

-Abdel Aal, A., El Barkooky, A., Gerrits, M., Meyer, H., Schwander, M., and Zaki, H. (2002). Tectonic evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean basin and its significance for the Hydrocarbon prospectively of the Nile delta ultra-deepwater area. The Leading Edge, Vol. 19, No. 10, pp. 1086-1102ز

-Abdeldayem, A. L., and Tarling, D. H. (1996). Palaeomagnetism of some Tertiary sedimentary rocks, southwest Sinai, Egypt, in the tectonic framework of the SE Mediterranean.  In A. Morris and D.H. Tarling (Eds.), Palaeomagnetism and tectonics of the Mediterranean region, Geological Society of London, Special Publication, Vol. 105, pp.  333-344. doi:10.1144/GSL.SP.1996.105.01.22

-Abdelqader, M., Hamama, S., Abdelqader, U., Kanrar, A., Zaki, R. and Eloribi, M. (2022). Improving the Imaging of Pre-Messinian Reservoirs in the East Mediterranean Sea, Offshore Egypt, Using Converted Wave Attenuation, Full-Waveform Inversion and Reflection Tomography. In International Petroleum Technology Conference 2022 Feb. 21 (p. D031S079R002). IPTC.

-Abd El-Fattah, B. K., Moustafa, A.R., and Yousef, M. (2021). A new insight into the structural evolution of Rosetta Fault, eastern margin of Herodotus Basin. East Mediterranean Mar. Pet. Geol.  Vol. 131:105161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2021.105161 

-Abed, Abdulk. M., (2013). The Eastern Mediterranean phosphorite giants: An interplay between tectonics and upwelling. GeoArabia, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp.67-94. 

-Abu-Jaber, N. S., Kimberly, M. M., and Cavaroc, V. V. (1989). Mesozoic-Paleogene basin development within the Eastern Mediterranean borderland. J. Pet. Geol., Vol. 12, No. 4, pp.  419-436.

-Agostini, S., Doglioni, C., Innocenti, F., Manetti, P., Sava¿çın, M. Y. and Tonarini, S. (2005). Tertiary high-Mg volcanic rocks from western Anatolia and their geodynamic significance for the evolution of the Aegean area. In: M. Fyitikas and G. Vougioulakakis (eds.), The South Aegean Volcanic Arc: present knowledge and future perspectives. Elsevier Book Spec. Series, Develop. Volcanol., Vol. 7, pp. 345-362.

 -Agostini, S., Doglioni, C., Innocenti, F., Manetti, P., Tonarini, S. and Sava¿çın, M. Y. (2007). The transition from orogenic to intraplate Neogene magmatism in Western Anatolia and Aegean area. In: L. Beccaluva, G. Bianchini, and M. Wilson (eds.), Cenozoic Volcanism in the Mediterranean Area. Geol. Soc. Am. Sp. Pap., Vol. 418, pp. 1-16. doi:10.1130/ 2007.2418(01).

-Agostini, S., Doglioni, C., Innocenti, F., Manetti, P. and Tonarini, S. (2008). Neogene volcanism and extension in Western Anatolian-Aegean area: a new geodynamic model. In: E. J. Catlos (ed.), Donald D. Harrington Symposium on the Geology of the Aegean. iop Conf. Series: Earth Environ. Sci., Vol. 2, 012008, doi:10.1088/1755-1307/2/1/012008.

-Agostini, S., Doglioni, C., Innocenti, F., Manetti, P., and Tonarini, S. (2010). On the geodynamics of the Aegean rift: Tectonophysics, Vol. 488, No. 1–4, pp. 7–21. 10.1016/j.tecto.2009.07.025

-Agostini, S., Ryan, J. G., Tonarini, S., and Innocenti, F. (2008). Drying and dying of a subducted slab: Coupled Li and B isotope variations in Western Anatolia Cenozoic Volcanism. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Vol. 272, No. 1-2, pp. 139–147. 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.032
-Ahmad, A., Ahmad, El B., Marc, G., Hans-Jurg, M., Marcus, Sch., and Hana, Z. (2001).  Tectonic evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean Basin and its significance fr the hydrocarbon prospectivity of the Nile Delta Deepwater Area. GeoArabia, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 363-384.  https://doi.org/10.2113/geoarabia0603363

-A kinci, O., Robertson, A. H. F., Poisson, A., and Bozkurt, E. (eds) (2003). The Isparta Angle, SWTurkey—its role in the evolution of Tethys in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Geological Journal, Vol. 38, pp. 191-394

-Aksu, A. E., Calon, T. J., Hall, J., Mansfield, S., and Yasar, D. (2005). The Cilicia–Adana basin complex, Eastern Mediterranean: Neogene evolution of an active fore-arc basin in an obliquely convergent margin. Mar. Geol. Vol. 221, pp. 121-159. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2005.03.011

-Aksu, A. E., Calon, T. J., Hall, J., and Yaşar, D. (2005). Origin and evolution of the Neogene Iskenderun Basin, Northeastern Mediterranean Sea. Mar. Geol., Vol. 221, pp. 161–187. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2005.03.010

-Aksu, A. E., Calon, T. J., Piper, D. G. W., Turgut, S., and Izdar, E. (1992). Architecture of late orogenic Quaternary basins in Northeastern Mediterranean Sea. Tectonophysics, Vol. 210, pp. 191-213.

-Aksu., A. E., Hall, J., Calon, T. J., Barnes, M. C., Güneş, P., and Cranshaw, J. C. (2018). Messinian evaporites across the Anaximander Mountains, Sırrı Erinç Plateau and the Rhodes and Finike basins, Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Marine Geology. Vol. 395, pp. 48-64

-Aksu, A. E., Hall, J., and Yaltirak, C. (2005). Miocene to Recent tectonic evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean: new pieces of the old Mediterranean puzzle. Mar. Geol. Vol. 221, pp. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2005.03.014

-Aksu, A. E., Hall, J., and Yaltırak, C., (2009). Miocene–Recent evolution of Anaximander Mountains and Finike Basin at the junction of Hellenic and Cyprus Arcs, Eastern Mediterranean. Mar. Geol., Vol. 258, pp. 24–47. doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2008.04.008

-Aksu, A. E., Hall, J., and Yaltırak, C. (2019). Dramatic Pliocene-Quaternary subsidence of the southern Rhodes Basin and concomitant north-tilting and uplift of the Anaximander Mountains, the junction of Hellenic and Cyprus arcs, Eastern Mediterranean Sea. | Tectonophysics, Vol. 762, pp. 121–143. 10.1016/j.tecto.2019.04.031

-Aksu, A. E., Hall, J., and Yaltirak, C. (2021). Miocene to Quaternary tectonic, kinematic and sedimentary evolution of Eastern Mediterranean Sea: A regonal synthesis. Earth-Science Reviews, Vol. 220, 103719. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103719

-Aksu, A. E., Konuk, T., Uluğ, A., Duman, M., and Piper, D. J. W. (1990). Quaternary tectonic and sedimentary history of Eastern Aegean Sea shelf area (Doğu Ege Denizi şelf alanının Kuvaterner’deki tektoniği ve tortul tarihçesi: Jeofizik, Vol. 4, pp. 3–35.

-Aksu, A. E., Ulug, A., Piper, D. J. W., Konuk, Y. T., and Turgut, S. (1992). Quaternary history of Adana, Cilicia and Iskenderun Basins: Northeastern Mediterranean. Marine Geology, Vol. 104, pp. 55-71.

-Aksu, A. E., Walsh-Kennedy, S., Hall, J., Hiscott, R.N., Yaltırak, C., Akhun, S.D., and  Çifçi, G., (2014). The Pliocene–Quaternary tectonic evolution of the Cilicia and Adana basins, Eastern Mediterranean: Special reference to the development of the Kozan Fault zone. Tectonophysics, Vol. 622, pp. 22–43. doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2014.03.025

-Aksu, A. E., Yaltirak, C. and Hiscott, R. N. (eds) (2002). Quaternary paleoclimatic–paleoceanographic and tectonic evolution of the Marmara Sea and environs. Marine Geology, Vol. 190, pp. 1-552.

-Al-Balushi, A. N., Neumaier, M., Fraser, A. J., and Jackson, C. A. L. {2016).The impact of the Messinian salinity crisis on the petroleum system of the Eastern Mediterranean: a critical assessment using 2D petroleum system modelling. Petrol. Geosci., 22, pp. 357-379.  https://doi.org/10.1144/petgeo2016-054

-Albora, a. M., Sayın, N., and Uçan, O.N.  (2006). Evaluation of tectonic structure of İskenderun Basin (Turkey) using steerable filters. Mar. Geophys. Res., Vol. 27, pp. 225–239. doi:10.1007/s11001-006 9002-5

-Alçiçe, M. C. (2007). Tectonic development of an orogen-top rift recorded by its terrestrial sedimentation pattern: The Neogene Eşen Basin of southwestern Anatolia, Turkey. Sedimentary Geology, Vol. 200, No. 1-2, pp. 117-140.

-Aldanmaz, E. (2006). Mineral– chemical constraints on the Miocene calc-alkaline and shoshonitic volcani crocks of western Turkey: disequilibrium phenocryst assemblages as indicators of magma storage and mixing conditions. Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences,Vol. 15, pp. 47-73.

-Aldanmaz, E., Köprübasi, N., Gürer, Ӧ. F., Kaymakci, N., and Gourgaud, A. (2006). Geochemical constraints on the Cenozoic, OIB-type alkaline volcanic rocks of NW Turkey: Implications for mantle sources and melting processes.  Lithos, Vol. 86, pp. 50-76.

-Aldanmaz, E., Pearce, J. A., Thirlwall, M. F. and Mitchell, J. (2000). Petrogenetic evolution of late Cenozoic, post-collision volcanism in western Anatolia, Turkey. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Vol. 102, pp.67-95.

-Alessandrini, B., Beranzoli, L., Drakatos, G., Falcone, C., Karantonis, G., Mele, F.M., and Stavrakakis, G. (1997). Back arc basins and P-wave crustal velocity in the Ionian and Aegean regions. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 24, pp. 527–530.

-Ali. S. M. (2024). Stress field and tectonic regime of the Eastern Mediterranean from inversion of earthquake focal mechanisms. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, Vol. 262, 1 March 2024, 106005. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2023.106005

-Alici, P., Temel, A., Gourgaud, A., Kieffer, G., and Gündogdu, M. N. (1998). Petrology and geochemistry of potassic rocks in the Gölcük area (Isparta, SW Turkey): genesis of enriched alkaline magmas. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Vol. 85, pp. 423-446.

-Alici, P., Temel, A., and Gourgaud, A. (2002). Pb–Nd–Sr isotope and trace element geochemistry of Quaternary extension-related alkaline volcanism: a case study of Kula region (western Anatolia, Turkey). Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, Vol. 115, pp. 487-510.

-Al-Lazki, A. I., Seber, D., Sandvol, E., Turkelli, N., Mohamad, R., and Barazangi, M. (2003). Tomographic Pn velocity and anisotropy structure beneath the Anatolian plateau (eastern Turkey) and the surrounding regions. Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 30, No. 24, pp. 8043. doi: 10.1029/2003GL017391

-Allen, H., Jackson, C. A. -L., and Fraser, A. J. (2016). Gravity-driven deformation of a youthful saline giant: the interplay between gliding and spreading in the Messinian basins of the Eastern Mediterranean. Pet. Geosci., petgeo2016-034. doi:10.1144/petgeo2016-034

-Allan, T. D., and C. Morel!i, C. (1971). A geophysical study of the Mediterranean Sea. Boll. Geofis. Teor. Appl, XII, pp. 99-142.

-Al-Riyami, K., Robertson, A., Dixon, J., and Xenophontos, C., Danellan, T., and Dixon,J. E. (2000). Mesozoic tectonic and sedimentary evolution of the Arabian continental margin in Baer-Bassit (NW Syria). In proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on the Geology of the Eastern Mediterranean, Nicosia, Cyprus, September 23-26, 1998 (eds:  Milpas, J., Xenophontos, C., and Panayides, A., pp. 61-81. Geological Survey Department, Cyprus.  

-Al-Tarzi, E. (1999). Regioal seismic hazard study for the Eastern Mediterranean (Trans-Jordan, Levant and Antakia) and Sinai Region. Jour. Of African Earth Sciences. Vol. 3, pp. 743-750. 

-Altiner, D. (1989). An example for the tectonic evolution of the Arabian platform margin (SEAnatolia) during Mesozoic and some criticisms of the previously suggested models, in A. M. C. Sengor, ed., Tectonic evolution of the Tethyan region: Dordrecht, Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 117-129.

-Altunkaynak, S. (2007). Collision-driven slab breakoff magmatism in northwestern Anatolia, Turkey. Journal of Geology, Vol. 115, pp. 63-82.

-Altunkaynak, S. and Dilek, Y. (2006). Timing and nature of post collisional volcanism in western Anatolia and geodynamic implications. In: Dilek, Y. and Pavlides, S. (eds), Post-collisional Tectonics and Magmatism in the Mediterranean Region and Asia. Geological Society of America, Special Papers, Vol. 409, pp. 321–351

-Ambraseys, N. N. (1962). Data for the investigation of the seismic sea-waves in the Eastern Mediterranean. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., Vol. 52, pp. 895-913.

Ambraseys, N. N. (1963). The seismicity of Cyprus, Publications of Imperial College, London.

Ambraseys N. N. (1965). The seismic history of Cyprus, Rev. Union Int. Secours, Vol. 3, pp. 25-48

-Ambraseys, N. N. (2001). Reassessment of earthquakes, 1900–1999, in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. Geophys. J. Int., Vol. 145, pp. 471– 485.

-Ambraseys, N. N. (2008). Descriptive catalogues of historical earthquakes in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East; revisited. In Historical seismology: Interdisciplinary studies of past and recent earthquakes (pp. 25–39). Springer

-Ambraseys, N. N., and Adams, R. D. (1992). Seismicity of the Cyprus region, pp. 47-67, ESEE research report, Imperial Coll. of Sci., Technol. and Med., Civ. Eng. Dep., London.

-Ambraseys, N. N., and Adams, R. D. (1993). Seismicity of the Cyprus region. Terra Nova, Vol. 5, pp. 85-94.

-Ambraseys, N. N., and Barazangi, M. (1989). The 1759 earthquake in the Bakaa Valley: implication for earthquake hazard assessment in the Eastern Mediterranean region, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 94, pp. 4007-4013.

-Ambraseys, N. N. and Finkel, C. F. (1993). Material for the investigation of the seismicity of the Eastern Mediterranean region during the period 1690–1710, in Materials of the CEC Project “Review of Historical Seismicity in Europe”, pp. 173–194, (ed.) Stucchi, M., CNR, Vol. 1, pp. 173– 194, Milano, Italy.

-Ambraseys, N. N., and Jackson, J. A. (1998). Faulting associated with historical and recent earthquakes in the Eastern Mediterranean. Geophys. Jour. Intern, Vol. 133, No. 2, pp. 390-406. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-246X.1998.00508.x

-Ambraseys, N. N. and Melville, C. P. (1988). An analysis of the Eastern Mediterranean earthquake of 20 May 1202. In: Lee, W. (ed,): Conference: Symposium on Historical Seismograms and Earthquakes of the world (27-08-1985). Academic Press, San Diego,  pp. 181-200.

-Ambraseys, N.N. and White, D., (1997). The seismicity of the Eastern Mediterranean region 550–1 BC: a re-appraisal, J. Earthquake Eng., Vol. 1, pp. 603–632.

-Amit, R., Enzel, Y., and Sharon, D. (2006). Permanent Quaternary hyperaridity in the Negev, Israel, resulting from regional tectonics blocking Mediterranean frontal systems. Geology, 2006 Jun 1, Vol. 34, No. 6, pp. 509-512. https://doi.org/10.1130/G22354.1

-Amitai, Y., Y. Lehahn, Y., Lazar, A., and Heifetz, E. (2010). Surface circulation of the Eastern Mediterranean Levantine basin: Insights from analyzing 14 years of satellite altimetry data. J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 115, C10058. doi:10.1029/2010JC006147.

-Anagnostoudi, Th., Vendeville, B. C., Gaullier, V., Ferrer, O., Schattner, U., and Lazar, M. (2024). Salt-related gravity-driven processes in the Levant Basin, Eastern Mediterranean: Insights from physical modeling. Journal of Structural Geology. Vol. 183, 105134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2024.105134

-Angelier, J. (1973). Sur la néotectonique égéenne: failles anté-tyrrhbéniennes et post-tyrrhéniennes dans I’fIe de Karpathos (Dodécanese, Gröce). C.R. Somm. Sot. Géo1. Fr., Vol. 7, No. 15, pp. 105-109.

-Angelier, J. (1977). Sur I’evolution tectonique depuis le Miocene supérieur d’un arc insulaire méditerranéen: l’arc égéen. Rev. Géogr. Phys. Géo1. Dyn.,  (2), Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 271-274.

-Angelier, J. (1979). Recent Quaternary tectonics in the Hellenic Arc-examples of geological observations on land. Tectonophysics, Vol. 52, No. 1-4, pp. 1–275. 10.1016/0040-1951(79)90231-2

-Angelier, J., Cadet, J. P., Delibrias, G., Fourniguet, J., Gigout, M., Guillemin, M., Hogrel, M. T., Lalou, C. and Pierre, G. (1976). Les déformations du Quaternaire marin, indicateurs néotectoniques. Quelques exemples méditerraneens. Rev. Géogr. Phys. Géol. Dyn., (2), Vol. 18, pp.  427-448.

-Angelier, J., Lyberis, N., Le Pichon, X., Barrier, E., and Huchon, P. (1982). The tectonic development of the Hellenic arc and the Sea of Crete: a synthesis. Tectonophysics, Vol. 86, pp. 159-196. 1.     https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(82)90066-X

-Angelier, J. and Tsoflias, P. (1976). Sur les mouvements mio-plio-quaternaires et la séismicité historique dans l’ile de Chios (Grèce). C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris, D, Vol. 283, pp. 1389-1391.

-Angus, D. A., Wilson, D. C., Sandvol, E., and Ni, J. F. (2006). Lithospheric structure of the Arabian and Eurasian collision zone in eastern Turkey from S-wave receiver functions. Geophysical Journal International, Vol. 166, pp. 1335-1346.

-Arabelos, D., and Tscherning, C. C. (1988). Gravity field mapping from satellite altimetry, sea-gravimetry and bathymetry in the Eastern Mediterranean. Geophysical Journal International, Vol. 92, No. 2, pp. 195–206, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-246X.1988.tb01134.x

-Argnani, A. (1990). The Strait of Sicily rift zone: foreland deformation related to the evolution of a back-arc basin. Journal of Geodynamics, Vol. 12, pp. 311-331. 

-Argnani, A., Bonazzi, C., and  the MESC 2001 Crew (2002). Tectonics of Eastern Sicily offshore: Preliminary results from the MESC 2001 Marine Seismic Cruise. Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata, Vol. 43, pp. 177–193.

-Arpat, E., (1972). The East Anatolian fault system: thoughts on its development. Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration Institute of Turkey, Vol. 78, No. 78, pp. 1–12.

-Arsenikos, S. (2014). Tectonic evolution and structure of the Cyrenaica margin, Libya (East Mediterranean). Université de Cergy Pontoise, 300 p.

-Arsenikos, S., Frizon De Lamotte, D., Chamot-Rooke, N. et al. (2013). Mechanism and timing of tectonic inversion in Cyrenaica (Libya): integration in the geodynamics of the East Mediterranean. Tectonophysics Vol. 608, pp. 319–329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2013.09.025

-Aubouin, J. (1977). Alpine Tectonics and Plate Tectonics: Thoughts about the Eastern Mediterranean. In: Europe from Crust to Core, Wiley, New York, pp 143-158.

-Aubouin, J., Le Pichon, X., Winterer, E., and Bonneau, M. (1977). Les Hellenides dans l'optiques de le tectonique des plaques. 6th Colloq Geol Aegean Region, Athens, Vol. 3, pp. 1333-1354.

-Avigad, D., Abbo, A., and Gerdes, A. (2016). Origin of the Eastern Mediterranean: Neotethys rifting along a cryptic Cadomian suture with Afro-Arabia. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., Vol. 128, pp. 1286–1296. https://doi.org/10.1130/B31370.1

-Avraham, Z. B., Ginzburg, A., Makris, J., and Eppelbaum, L. (2002). Crustal structure of the Levant basin, Eastern Mediterranean. Tectonophysics, Vol. 346, pp. 23-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-1951(01)00226-8

-Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, M., and Kaufman, A. (2002). Climatic conditions during marine oxygen isotope stage 6 in the eastern Mediterranean region from the isotopic composition of speleothems of Soreq Cave, Israel. Geology, 2002 Apr 1, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 303-306. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030%3C0303:CCDMOI%3E2.0.CO;2

-Ayoub, N., Le Traon, P.-Y., and De Mey, P. (1998). A description of the Mediterranean surface variable circulation from combined ERS-1 and TOPEX/POSEIDON altimetric data. J. Mar. Syst., Vol. 18, No. 1–3, pp.3–40. doi:10.1016/S0924-7963(98)80004-3

-Bachmann, O. 2(010). The petrologic evolution and pre-eruptive conditions of the rhyolitic Kos Plateau Tuff (Aegean arc. Central European Journal of Geosciences, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 270-305. 10.2478/v10085-010-0009-4

-Bar, O., Gvirtzman, Z., Feinstein, S., and Zilberman, E. (2013). Accelerated subsidence and sedimentation in the Levant basin during the late tertiary and concurrent uplift of the Arabian platform: Tectonic versus counteracting sedimentary loading effects. Tectonics, Vol. 32, pp. 334-350. doi:10.1002/tect.20026

-Barazangi, M., Sawaf, T., Al-Saad, D., Chaimov, T., Best, J., Seber, D., and  Litak, R. (1993). Tectonic Evolution of the Northern Arabian Plate in Western Syria. In: Boschi, E., Mantovani, E., Morelli, A. (eds) Recent Evolution and Seismicity of the Mediterranean Region, NATO ASI Series, Vol 402, pp.117-140. Springer, Dordrecht.. https://doi.org/ 10.1007/978-94-011-2016-6_5

-Baran, Z. Ö., and Dilek, Y. (2011). Supradetachment basin evolution during continental extension; the Aegean province of western Anatolia, Turkey. Geological Society of America Bulletin, Vol. 123, No. 11-12, pp. 11–12. 10.1130/B30468.1

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-Barboni, A., Lazar, A., Stegner, A., and Moschos, E. (2021). Lagrangian eddy tracking reveals the Eratosthenes anticyclonic attractor in the eastern Levantine basin. Ocean Sci., Vol. 17, pp. 1231–1250, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-1231-2021.

-Barbot, S., and Weiss, J. R. (2021). Connecting subduction, extension and shear localization across the Aegean Sea and Anatolia. Geophysical Journal International, Vol. 226-1, No. 1, pp. 422–445. 10.1093/gji/ggab078

-Barka, A., and Reilinger, R. (1997). Active tectonics of the Eastern Mediterranean region: deduced from GPS, neotectonic and seismicity data. Ann. Geofis., Vol. 15, pp. 587-610. https://www.earth-prints.org/handle/2122/1520

-Baroz, F. (1979). Étude géologique dans le Pentadaktylos et la Mesaoria (Chypre septentrionale). Université de Nancy.

-Bartov, Y., Goldstein, S. L., Stein, M., and Enzel, Y. (2023). Catastrophic arid episodes in the Eastern Mediterranean linked with the North Atlantic Heinrich events. Geology, 2003 May 1, Vol. 31, No. 5, pp. 439-442. https://doi.org/10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031%3C0439:CAEITE%3E2.0.CO;2


-Baruch, U. (1994). The late Quaternary pollen record of the Near East. In: Bar-Yosef, O., Kra, R.S. (Eds.), Late Quaternary Chronology and Paleoclimates of the Eastern Mediterranean. The University of Arizona, Tucson,pp. 103–119.


-Bar-Yosef, O., and Kra, R. S., (1994). Dating Eastern Mediterranean sequences: introductory remarks. In: Bar-Yosef, O., Kra, R.S. (Eds.), Late Quaternary Chronology and Paleoclimates of the Eastern Mediterranean. The University of Arizona, Tucson, pp. 1–12.




-Basheer, A. A. (2025). Source Process and Parameters for the Major Seismic Events in the East Mediterranean-Red Sea Region. In: Hamimi, Z., et al. Seismotectonics of the East Mediterranean-Red Sea region. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-80928-6_17


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