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Accretionary prism–forearc interactions as reflected in the sedimentary fill of southern Thrace Basin (Lemnos Island, NE Greece)

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Architecture of the well-exposed ancient forearc basin successions of northeast Aegean Sea, Greece, provides useful insights into the interplay between arc magmatism, accretionary prism exhumation, and sedimentary deposition in forearc basins. The upper Eocene–lower Oligocene basin fill of the southern Thrace forearc basin reflects the active influence of the uplifted accretionary prism. Deep-marine sediments predominate the basin fill that eventually shoals upwards into shallow-marine sediments. This trend is related to tectonically driven uplift and compression. Field, stratigraphic, sedimentological, petrographic, geochemical, and provenance data on the lower Oligocene shallow-marine deposits revealed the accretionary prism (i.e. Pindic Cordillera or Biga Peninsula) as the major contributor of sediments into the forearc region. Field investigations in these shallow-marine deposits revealed the occurrence of conglomerates with: (1) mafic and ultramafic igneous rock clasts, (2) low-grade metamorphic rock fragments, and (3) sedimentary rocks. The absence of felsic volcanic fragments rules out influence of a felsic source rock. Geochemical analysis indicates that the studied rocks were accumulated in an active tectonic setting with a sediment source of mainly mafic composition, and palaeodispersal analysis revealed a NE-NNE palaeocurrent trend, towards the Rhodopian magmatic arc. Thus, these combined provenance results make the accretionary prism the most suitable candidate for the detritus forming these shallow-marine deposits.

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The work presented in this article represents internally funded research conducted by the authors as part of the Department of Geology, University of Patras, Greece. The authors gratefully thank StratoChem Laboratories, Cairo, Egypt, for the geochemical analysis. The authors acknowledge the journal editor Prof. Wolf-Christian Dullo, and the journal reviewers Jeffrey M. Trop, Markos Tranos, and Kathleen Surpless for their constructive discussions and thorough editing that largely improved the manuscript.

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  1. School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia

    A. G. Maravelis

  2. Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Campus do Vale Av. Bento Gonçalves 9500, Porto Alegre, CEP 91501-970, Brazil

    G. Pantopoulos

  3. Laboratory of Sedimentology, Department of Geology, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

    P. Tserolas & A. Zelilidis

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Maravelis, A.G., Pantopoulos, G., Tserolas, P. et al. Accretionary prism–forearc interactions as reflected in the sedimentary fill of southern Thrace Basin (Lemnos Island, NE Greece). Int J Earth Sci (Geol Rundsch) 104, 1039–1060 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-014-1130-6

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