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EUROPROBE
PROJECTS
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CAUCASUS:
Geodynamics of Collision-Related Basins
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The
CAUCASUS Project focuses on the Cenozoic collision-related foredeep sedimentary
basins along the northern slopes of the Great Caucasus, seeking to decipher their
evolution and the relationships in time and space between the basin structures and
basement deformation. Of particular interest is the distribution of on-going deformation
in terms of stress and recent movements between the Scythian platform in the north and the
Arabian/Turkish plate in the south.
One of the key elements of the project is to link the geological record to geodynamic
models of orogenic and basin-forming processes using the present day neotectonic, in-situ
stress, seismicity and geodetic measurements as dynamic and kinematic boundary conditions.
The EUROPROBE CAUCASUS Project was initiated at EUROPROBE'S Amsterdam workshop in 1993 and
now involves collaboration among geoscientists from France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, the
Netherlands, Russia, Sweden and Canada. It is supported by the INTAS agency and the
Peri-Tethys programme.
The main goals of the CAUCASUS Project include:
Deciphering
the tectonic history of the northern Caucasus by multidisciplinary analysis of the
geological record of Cenozoic sedimentary basins and their underlying (and partly
over-thrust) crust.
Reconstruction
of the palaeostress and strain regimes (kinematics and dynamics).
Linking
the present-day stress regime to observed (geodetic) and palaeotectonic vertical and
horizontal movements through geodynamic modelling.
Exploiting
existing geological and geophysical data sets for quantitative modelling of tectonic and
tectono-sedimentary processes.
Construction
of palaeogeographic maps for the period of development of the foredeep.
Redefinition
of the crustal structure and basement controls on sedimentary basin development and
deformation from existing geophysical data and definition of targets for new deep seismic
near-vertical and wide-angle reflection surveys across the western foredeep
(Indola-Kuban).
Comparative
studies of the evolution of the NCFB and other foredeeps of the peri-Mediterranean region.
Get the CAUCASUS text
and figures out of the EUROPROBE 1996 publication by clicking on the corresponding
text. Click on the figure and see the image enlarged.
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Text (PDF file, 260 kb)
For more information please contact the project
leader:
Dr. Riccardo Polino
CNR-CS Geodinamica delle Catene Collisionali
V. Accademia Delle Scienze 5
I-101 23 TORINO
ITALY
Tel: +39-11/53 06 52, /562 11 79
Fax: +39-11/53 06 52, /54 17 55
E-mail: polino@cgs.to.cnr.it
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