Girit Adası ve Rodos Baseni’nin (Doğu Akdeniz) Dengeleme Mekanizmasının Girişim (Admittance) Fonksiyonu ile Araştırılması
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: It is a tectonically important concept how the crust and the upper mantle gravitationally balancing the topographic loads. Balancing the loads in a region can be determined by examining the topographic and gravity data. In this study, the balancing mechanism of Eastern Mediterranean region, which is quite tectonically complex, was determined by using Admittance function as the first time in the literature. In this context, Eastern Mediterranean region, which has different topographic/bathymetric, gravity values and tectonic features, was divided into two regions as Crete Island and Rhodos basin. The effective elastic thickness values of these regions were obtained by using the coherency of admittance between gravity and topography values and average flexure depths of the crustal-mantle interfaces were calculated by forward-inverse solutions. As the result, it is determined that the isostatic models of Eastern Mediterranean regions do not fit with the Airy model and the effective elastic thickness values of Crete Island-its surroundings and Rhodos basin-its surroundings are approximately 6 km and 8 km, respectively. The average flexure depths of the crustal-mantle interfaces related to the optimal effective elastic thickness value of Crete Island and Rhodos basin are approximately 19-29 km and 20-32 km, respectively.
Authors: Ayça ÇIRMIK, Oya PAMUKÇU
Institution: Dokuz Eylül University
Language: Turkish
Subfield: Geology
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3028268360