Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/11499/9526
Title: Geomorphic and geological constraints on the active normal faulting of the gediz (Alaşehir) graben, western Turkey
Authors: Kent, E.
Boulton, S.J.
Stewart, I.S.
Whittaker, A.C.
Alçiçek, Mehmet Cihat
Keywords: Fault slips
Geology
Active regions
Bounding faults
Fault arrays
Footwall uplift
Metamorphic core complex
Normal faulting
Single fault
Time-averaged
Faulting
earthquake magnitude
earthquake prediction
exhumation
fault zone
geodynamics
graben
normal fault
structural geology
Gediz
Kutahya [Turkey]
Menderes Massif
Turkey
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Abstract: The Gediz (Alaşehir) Graben is located in the highly tectonically active region of Western Turkey. Extension owing to regional geodynamic controls has resulted in a broadly two-phase evolution of the graben; first, low-angle normal faulting relating to the exhumation of the Menderes Massif metamorphic core complex took place between 16 and 2.6 Ma; second, highangle normal faulting initiated c. 2 Ma forming the Gediz and other east–west-trending graben in the region. Here we quantify the throw rate along the fault array over the last 2.6, 2 and 0.7 myr using structural and geological constraints, along with analysis of topographic relief as a proxy for footwall uplift. We derive, for the first time, time-averaged rates of fault motion from 0.4 to 1.3 mm a-1 along the strike of the Gediz Graben, with variation in throw rate associated with the geometry of single fault strands. Patterns in throw rate along-strike of the graben-bounding fault array also suggest that the fault segments have become linked during the last 2.6–2 myr, possibly at 0.8–0.7 Ma. Furthermore, these data suggest that an earthquake occurring along the graben-bounding fault could have a maximum predicted Mw of 6.3–7.6. © 2016 The Author(s). Published by The Geological Society of London. All rights reserved.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/11499/9526
https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2015-121
ISSN: 0016-7649
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