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Multistage lithospheric drips control active basin formation within an uplifting orogenic plateau

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  • A. Julia Andersen

    (University of Toronto)

  • Oguz Hakan Göğüş

    (Eurasian Institute of Earth Sciences)

  • Russell N. Pysklywec

    (University of Toronto)

  • Ebru Şengül Uluocak

    (Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
    GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences)

  • Tasca Santimano

    (University of Toronto)

Abstract

According to GNSS/INSAR measurements, the Konya Basin in Central Anatolia is undergoing rapid subsidence within an uplifting orogenic plateau. Further, geophysical studies reveal thickened crust under the basin and a fast seismic wave speed anomaly in the underlying mantle, in addition to a localised depression in calculated residual topography (down to 280 m) over the Konya Basin, based on gravity-topography considerations. Using scaled laboratory (analogue) experiments we show that the active formation of the Konya Basin may be accounted for by the descent of a mantle lithospheric drip causing local circular-shaped surface subsidence. We interpret that the Konya Basin is developing through a secondary drip pulse that is contemporaneous with broad plateau uplift caused by a larger-scale lithospheric drip since the Miocene. The research reveals that basin evolution and plateau uplift may be linked in a multistage process of lithospheric removal during episodic development of orogenic systems.

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  • A. Julia Andersen & Oguz Hakan Göğüş & Russell N. Pysklywec & Ebru Şengül Uluocak & Tasca Santimano, 2024. "Multistage lithospheric drips control active basin formation within an uplifting orogenic plateau," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-10, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-52126-7
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-52126-7
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    1. Min Chen & Fenglin Niu & Jeroen Tromp & Adrian Lenardic & Cin-Ty A. Lee & Wenrong Cao & Julia Ribeiro, 2017. "Lithospheric foundering and underthrusting imaged beneath Tibet," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 8(1), pages 1-10, August.
    2. Oğuz H. Göğüş & Russell N. Pysklywec & A. M. C. Şengör & Erkan Gün, 2017. "Drip tectonics and the enigmatic uplift of the Central Anatolian Plateau," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 8(1), pages 1-9, December.
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