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TI Ionian Abyssal Plain: A window into the Tethys oceanic lithosphere
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AF Dannowski, Anke
   Kopp, Heidrun
   Klingelhoefer, Frauke
   Klaeschen, Dirk
   Gutscher, Marc-Andre
   Krabbenhoeft, Anne
   Dellong, David
   Rovere, Mickael
   Graindorge, David
   Papenberg, Cord
   Klaucke, Ingo
AS 1:1;2:1,2;3:3;4:1;5:4;6:1;7:3,4;8:5;9:6;10:1;11:1;
FF 1:;2:;3:PDG-REM-GM-LAD;4:;5:;6:;7:PDG-REM-GM-LAD;8:PDG-REM-GM-LGS;9:;10:;11:;
C1 Dynamics of the Ocean Floor, GEOMAR, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, 24148, Germany
   Department of Geosciences, Kiel University, Kiel, 24118, Germany
   Géosciences Marines, Ifremer, Centre de Brest, Plouzané, 29280, France
   Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, IUEM, Université Brest, CNRS, Plouzané, 29280, France
   Institute of Marine Sciences National Research Council, ISMAR – CNR, Bologna, 40129, Italy
   Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, IUEM, Université Brest, CNRS, Plouzané, 29280, France
C2 IFM GEOMAR, GERMANY
   UNIV KIEL, GERMANY
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   CNRS, FRANCE
   CNR ISMAR, ITALY
   UBO, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-REM-GM-LAD
   PDG-REM-GM-LGS
UM LGO
IN WOS Ifremer UPR
   DOAJ
   copubli-france
   copubli-europe
   copubli-univ-france
IF 2.921
TC 21
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00473/58431/61006.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00473/58431/63456.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB The nature of the Ionian Sea crust has been the subject of scientific debate for more than 30 years, mainly because seismic imaging of the deep crust and upper mantle of the Ionian Abyssal Plain (IAP) has not been conclusive to date. The IAP is sandwiched between the Calabrian and Hellenic subduction zones in the central Mediterranean. To univocally confirm the proposed oceanic nature of the IAP crust as a remnant of the Tethys ocean and to confute its interpretation as a strongly thinned part of the African continental crust, a NE-SW oriented 131 km long seismic refraction and wide-angle reflection profile consisting of eight ocean bottom seismometers and hydrophones was acquired in 2014. A P-wave velocity model developed from travel time forward modelling is refined by gravimetric data and synthetic modelling of the seismic data. A roughly 6km thick crust with velocities ranging from 5.1km/s to 7.2km/s, top to bottom, can be traced throughout the IAP. In the vicinity of the Medina Seamounts at the southern IAP boundary, the crust thickens to about 9km and seismic velocities decrease to 6.8km/s at the crust-mantle boundary. The seismic velocity distribution and depth of the crust-mantle boundary in the IAP document its oceanic nature, and support the interpretation of the IAP as a remnant of the Tethys oceanic lithosphere formed during the Permian and Triassic period. 
PY 2019
PD APR
SO Solid Earth
SN 1869-9510
PU Copernicus GmbH
VL 10
IS 2
UT 000463352400001
BP 447
EP 462
DI 10.5194/se-10-447-2019
ID 58431
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