GeotectonicsGeotectonicsГеотектоника0016-853X3034-4972The Russian Academy of Sciences68743310.31857/S0016853X25020011EGRKDVArticlesСтатьиResearch ArticleA Giant Quasi-Ring Mantle Structure Beneath the Eastern Mediterranean: Interpretation of New Seismic-Tomography, Magnetic Field, and Paleobiogeographic DataГигантская квазикольцевая мантийная структура под восточным средиземноморьем: анализ новых данных сейсмотомографии, магнитного поля, палеобиогеографии и комплексная интерпретация полученных результатовEppelbaumL. V.ЭппельбаумЛ. В.
Israel

Faculty of Exact Sciences

факультет точных наук

levap@tauex.tau.ac.ilKatzYu. I.КацЮ. И.
Israel

Faculty of Life Sciences

факультет естественных наук

levap@tauex.tau.ac.ilBen-AvrahamZ.Бен-АврахамЦ.
Israel

Faculty of Exact Sciences

факультет точных наук

levap@tauex.tau.ac.ilTel Aviv UniversityТель-Авивский университетAzerbaijan State Oil and Industry University (ASOIU)Азербайджанский государственный университет нефти и промышленности (АГУНП)Steinhardt Museum of Natural History – National Research Center, Tel Aviv UniversityТель-Авивский университет. Музей естественной истории – Национальный исследовательский центр Штайнхардта1504202523311307202513072025Copyright ©; 2025, Russian academy of sciencesCopyright ©; 2025,2025Russian academy of scienceshttps://journals.eco-vector.com/0016-853X/article/view/687433

In the presented article, a quantitative reinterpretation of the residual satellite gravity anomaly is carried out. Additional necessary confirmation is provided by the distribution of anomalies in the regional magnetic field ΔZ, reduced to a height of 2.5 km above sea level. Based on the analysis of detailed paleomagnetic studies, the average rotation rate of the surface projection of the deep structure over the past 70 million years is estimated at about 18 mm/year. The authors constructed a paleobiogeographic map showing the counterclockwise displacement of the typical Ethiopian fauna to the northwest. The influence of the rotating deep structure on stress in the overlying blocks of the Earth’s crust and lithosphere before the catastrophic earthquakes with magnitudes M=7.9 and M=7.8 that occurred on 06.02.2023 in Turkey is shown. The synthesis of seismic tomography profiles made it possible to construct a seismotomographic scheme of the location of the deep structure. This scheme agrees with the analysis of satellite gravity and marine/terrestrial gravity studies, geoid anomalies, magnetic anomaly distributions, paleomagnetic data, regional GPS vector directions, seismological and tectonic-structural, and mineralogical-petrological data. The integrative combination of all these factors is indisputable to confirm the existence of an anomalous deep rotating structure beneath the Eastern Mediterranean and adjacent regions.

В представленной статье проведена количественная переинтерпретация остаточной гравитационной спутниковой аномалии. Дополнительное важное подтверждение дает распределение аномалий регионального магнитного поля DZ, сведенного к высоте 2.5 км над уровнем моря. На основе анализа детальных палеомагнитных исследований оценена средняя скорость вращения поверхностной проекции глубинной структуры за последние 70 млн лет – около 18 мм/год. Авторами построена палебиогеографическая карта, ясно показывающая смещение типичной эфиопской фауны на северо-запад против движения часовой стрелки. Показано влияние вращающейся глубинной структуры на возникновение напряжения в вышележащих блоках земной коры и литосферы перед катастрофическими землетрясениями с магнитудами M=7.9 и М=7.8, произошедших 06.02.2023 в Турции. Синтез профилей сейсмической томографии позволил построить сейсмотомографическую схему расположения глубинной структуры. Эта схема хорошо совпадает с результатами анализа спутниковой гравиметрии и морских/наземных гравиметрических исследований, аномалиями геоида, распределениями магнитных аномалий, палеомагнитными данными, региональными направлениями векторов GPS, сейсмологическими и тектоно-структурными и минералого-петрологическими данными. Интегративное сочетание всех этих факторов подтверждает существование аномальной глубинной вращающейся структуры под Восточным Средиземноморьем и прилегающими регионами.

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