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Neotectonic Evolution Of An Actively Growing Superimposed Basin In Western Anatolia: The Inner Bay Of İzmir, Turkey, Bora Uzel, Hasan Sözbi̇li̇r, Çağlar Özkaymak

Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences

İzmir Bay is an actively growing shallow marine basin controlled by active faults trending NE, NW, N-S and E-W, in the West Anatolian Extensional Province. The bay of İzmir is a lazy L-shaped superimposed basin which is topographically divided into an E-W-trending inner bay and a NW-trending outer bay. The Inner Bay of İzmir is an asymmetric graben structure approximately 5-7 km wide and 25 km long containing (i) upper Cretaceous-Palaeocene basement, (ii) an older succession of lower to upper Miocene basin fill, overlain with angular unconformity by (iii) a younger Plio-Quaternary basin fill. The older succession contain a 0.5- …