MIDDLE-LATE QUATERNARY GEODYNAMICS OF CRETE, SOUTHERN AEGEAN, AND SEISMOTECTONIC IMPLICATIONS

Middle-Late Cambrian acritarchs from the Zardkuh area in the High Zagros Mountains, southern Iran: Stratigraphic and paleogeographic implications

The excellent preservation of the acritarchs, their great abundance, diversity and good stratigraphic control permit establishment of a detailed Middle and Late Cambrian acritarch biozonation. A total of 56 palynomorph species form the basis of 10 local acritarch assemblage zones. Assemblage zones I-II occur in the lower and middle parts of the Member C of the Mila Formation and suggest Early-m...

Quaternary evolution of the Corinth Rift and its implications for the Late Cenozoic evolution of the Aegean

Crete in the Hellenistic Aegean: Seeing Through the Cretan Mirage

From a geographic perspective, the island of Crete in the south of the Aegean was wellpositioned to engage in the rapidly expanding trade networks of the Mediterranean that flourished in the wake of the death of Alexander the Great. Ancient literary sources tell us that these maritime routes through which goods flowed were often plagued by ‘pirates’, roaming independently of any hegemonic rule....

Contemporary kinematics of the southern Aegean and the Mediterranean Ridge

S U M M A R Y This study focuses on the kinematics of the southern Aegean and the Mediterranean Ridge (MR). A quantification of the deformation of the MR is essential for both evaluating physical models of accretionary wedges in general and for obtaining a self-consistent model of the surface deformation over the entire Nubia–Eurasia (NU–EU) plate boundary zone in the eastern Mediterranean. Pre...

Origin of late Quaternary dune fields on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico

Mostly stabilized late Holocene eolian sands on the Southern High Plains of the United States were studied to determine their origins and to assess whether present dune stability depends more strongly on sediment supply, sediment availability, or transport limitations. Geomorphic, sedimentological, and geochemical trends indicate that late Holocene dunes formed under westerly paleowinds, broadl...