TY - CHAP
T1 - Seismic geomorphology of the Israel Slump complex in the Levant Basin (SE Mediterranean)
AU - Eruteya, Ovie Emmanuel
AU - Safadi, Murad
AU - Waldmann, Nicolas
AU - Makovsky, Yizhaq
AU - Ben-Avraham, Zvi
N1 - Funding Information: The authors are grateful to ILDC, Modi’in Energy and GGR for graciously granting permission to show the seismic dataset. We would like to thank Dallas Dunlap and Joe Cartwright for their extremely careful and constructive reviews. Special thanks also to guest editor Aaron Micallef for his useful comments. Ovie is grateful to the Graduate Studies Authority, University of Haifa and Marie Curie Career Integration Grants (CIG) FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG in the framework of Nicolas Waldmann’s GASTIME project, for funding towards his Ph.D research. We are also grateful to Uri Schattner, Mathieu Rodriguez and Or Bialik for fruitful discussion. Schlumberger, Paradigm and IHS Kingdom are thanked for granting academic licenses of their respective software packages used as part of this study. Publisher Copyright: © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Mass transport complexes (MTCs) are significant constituents of the post-evaporitic overburden in the Levant Basin, offshore Israel. Analysis of a new 3D seismic dataset offshore central Israel reveals that the Israel Slump Complex (ISC) consists of three stacked mass transport deposits (MTDs). The MTDs vary in lateral extent from between ∼351 and 752 km2 with thicknesses between ∼190 and 325 m, accounting for a remobilised sediment volume of ∼35-94 km3. Interestingly, each MTD is unique, exhibiting different geometries, internal architectures, and halokinetic-related imprints. We document a novel palmlike erosional morphology, blocky facies, arcuate facies, mounded structure, syn-depositional thrust systems, and a channelised geometry. These configurations indicate different transport distance, mechanics, and kinematic history for each MTD within the complex, and may suggest different trigger events. The results of this study shed light on the interplay of multiple MTDs within a greater MTC. It also provides new insights into the nature and formation of the ISC in the offshore area of central Israel, which arose from at least three short-timed mass wasting events during the Late Pliocene. Likewise it may serve as an analogue to understand the configurations of MTDs in basins with well-developed evaporite layers.
AB - Mass transport complexes (MTCs) are significant constituents of the post-evaporitic overburden in the Levant Basin, offshore Israel. Analysis of a new 3D seismic dataset offshore central Israel reveals that the Israel Slump Complex (ISC) consists of three stacked mass transport deposits (MTDs). The MTDs vary in lateral extent from between ∼351 and 752 km2 with thicknesses between ∼190 and 325 m, accounting for a remobilised sediment volume of ∼35-94 km3. Interestingly, each MTD is unique, exhibiting different geometries, internal architectures, and halokinetic-related imprints. We document a novel palmlike erosional morphology, blocky facies, arcuate facies, mounded structure, syn-depositional thrust systems, and a channelised geometry. These configurations indicate different transport distance, mechanics, and kinematic history for each MTD within the complex, and may suggest different trigger events. The results of this study shed light on the interplay of multiple MTDs within a greater MTC. It also provides new insights into the nature and formation of the ISC in the offshore area of central Israel, which arose from at least three short-timed mass wasting events during the Late Pliocene. Likewise it may serve as an analogue to understand the configurations of MTDs in basins with well-developed evaporite layers.
KW - Israel slump complex
KW - Levant Basin
KW - Mass transport deposit
KW - Seismic geomorphology
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20979-1_4
DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20979-1_4
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-3-319-20978-4
SN - 978-3-319-37245-7
T3 - Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, 7th International Symposium
SP - 39
EP - 47
BT - Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences, 7th International Symposium
A2 - Pecher, Ingo
A2 - Mueller, Christof
A2 - Hubble, Tom
A2 - Moscardelli, Lorena
A2 - Lamarche, Geoffroy
A2 - Bull, Suzanne
A2 - Lane, Emily
A2 - Micallef, Aaron
A2 - Mountjoy, Joshu
A2 - Krastel, Sebastian
A2 - Woelz, Susanne
PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers
ER -