Incipient Continent-Continent Collision and its impact on basement and sedimentary cover

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Our project strives for a quantitative understanding of earth processes related to incipient continentcontinent collision, exemplified on the instance of Cyprus and the Eratosthenes Seamount (ESM) in the eastern Mediterranean where collision was initiated in the early Pleistocene. The 3D-geometry of the down thrusted crustal block of the seamount will be examined for the first time by the integrated interpretation of refraction, gravity, magnetic, magneto-telluric and multi-channel seismic data. The 2D-geometry of the uplifted and overriding Cyprus-Anatolian plate will be unravelled by the analysis of an amphibian refraction seismic profile. High-resolution reflection seismic, echosounder and multi-beam data represent the key for the in-depth understanding of the impact of the structural shortening on the stratigraphy, salt tectonics, slope stability and fluid migration of the interjacent sedimentary succession. All necessary data have been already collected in spring 2010 during more than 3 months of marine surveying and along a 650 km long refraction land seismic profile across Cyprus and southern Turkey. The outcome of this project will represent essential constraints for subsequent quantitative earth process modelling.