Mart, Y.; Robertson, A. H. F.; Woodside, J. M. (1997): Cretaceous tectonic setting of Eratosthenes Seamount in the eastern Mediterranean Neotethys; initial results of ODP Leg 160. Gauthier-Villars, Montrouge, France, Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie II. Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes, 324 (2), 127-134, georefid:1999-010854

Abstract:
Recent ODP traverse of boreholes on the northern flank of Eratosthenes Seamount in the eastern Mediterranean Sea encountered shallow marine carbonates of mid-Cretaceous (?) age, overlain first by bathyal chalks of Coniacian-Maastrichtian and Eocene ages, then by shallow-marine limestones of Miocene age. The succession is similar to that of the southern Levant, but is markedly different from southern Cyprus. The results suggest that Eratosthenes Seamount formed part of the divergent African margin during the Mesozoic. It was submerged in the Late Cretaceous, then uplifted by the Miocene. Neogene subduction along the Cyprean active margin brought the Eratosthenes Seamount into incipient collision with Cyprus.
Coverage:
West: 32.2000 East: 34.3000 North: 35.4000 South: 33.2500
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Expedition: 160
Site: 160-967
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Provider: SEDIS Publication Catalogue
Data set link: http://sedis.iodp.org/pub-catalogue/index.php?id=1999-010854 (c.f. for more detailed metadata)
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