Structure and faulting above a thick Messinian salt layer in the Levant Basin (offshore Israel)
- Álvaro Carrión Torrente 1
- Juan Ignacio Soto Hermoso 1
- Moshe Reshef 2
- Joan Flinch 3
- Ilson Nunes Rubim 1
- 1 Universidad de Granada, España
- 2 Tel Aviv University, Israel
- 3 Repsol Exploracion S. A., España
ISSN: 0213-683X
Year of publication: 2017
Issue Title: Comunicaciones presentadas en la LXII Sesión Científica / Guadalupe, 25 de Mayo de 2017
Issue: 62
Pages: 23-26
Type: Article
More publications in: Geogaceta
Abstract
The structure and deformation history of the supra-salt succession in a sector of the Levant Basin (offshore Israel) in the Eastern Mediterranean have been analysed. Through the interpretation of seismic cube migrated in depth, the main seismic discontinuities have been established in the Plio-Quaternary sequence, as well as the top and base of a thick salt layer of Messinian age (~1 km of thickness). A detailed seismic-stratigraphy has let to analyse the distribution of the supra-salt normal faults, as well as the pulses of syn-sedimentary faulting. At the same time as a ductile flow of the salt towards the NW, the cover was deformed and sank by means of SW-NE trending syn-sedimentary faults. During this deformation three main faulting pulses have been reconstructed (≤3.7, ~3.7-2.6, and ≤0.9 Ma).