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http://sedis.iodp.org/pub-catalogue/informationpointOfContact2011-06-23T00:00:00Zhttp://sedis.iodp.org/pub-catalogue/index.php?id=1999-0108541997-01-01publicationgeorefid:1999-010854Mart, Y.University of Haifa, Leon Recanati Center of Marine Studies, Haifa, IsraelauthorRobertson, A. H. F.University of Edinburgh, United KingdomauthorWoodside, J. M.Free University, NetherlandsauthorGauthier-Villars, Montrouge, FrancepublisherdocumentHardcopyComptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie II. Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes324 (2)127-134Recent 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.completedStructural geologyAsiabathymetrycarbonate rocksCenozoicchalkCretaceousCyprusdrillingEast MediterraneanEratosthenes SeamountgeodynamicsLeg 160lithostratigraphymarine geologyMediterranean SeaMesozoicMiddle EastNeogeneNeotethysOcean Drilling Programocean floorsODP Site 967orogenypaleoenvironmentplate collisionplate tectonicssedimentary rockssubductiontectonicsTertiaryupper Tertiaryurn:org.iodp:exp:160urnlargerWorkCitationcampaignurn:org.iodp:exp:160:site:967urnlargerWorkCitationstudyurn:org.iodp:exp:160urnlargerWorkCitationcampaignEnglishgeoscientificInformation32.200034.300033.250035.4000CyprusEratosthenes Seamount