caa a22 4500 386402779 CHVBK 20180307112206.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S001675680002238X doi S001675680002238X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S001675680002238X The sedimentary expression of regional tectonic events during the Miocene-Pliocene transition in the southern Cyprus basins [Elektronische Daten] A well-known tectonic event affecting the East Mediterranean region, generally referred to as ‘the' Miocene-Pliocene phase, occurs at, or near the Miocene-Pliocene boundary. Recent sedimentological studies in Cyprus indicate that this ‘event', in fact, is complex. The Tortonian-Lower Pliocene period is marked by a stress involving an N20 extension in the Polemi and Pissouri basins and by an N100 extension in the Psematismenos basin. Sedimentological studies have demonstrated three tectonic pulsations during Messinian time, prior to the Pliocene transgression. These are expressed by two episodes of seismic brecciation, and a palaeo-emersion is indicated by palaeosols and detrital discharges. These phenomena suggest brief tectonic instability during Messinian time. Microtectonic studies in the South Troodos basins of Cyprus reveal that the main change in tectonic stress does not coincide with the Miocene-Pliocene contact but occurs at the end of Lower Pliocene time. The authors conclude that the so-called Miocene-Pliocene ‘event', in reality, is a series of subtle tectonic pulsations recorded clearly by sedimentary parameters. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Orszag-Sperber F. Laboratoire de Pétrologie Sédimentaire et Paléontologie, Université Paris-Sud (Orsay), UA 723, 91405-Orsay Cedex, France Rouchy J. M. Laboratoire de Géologie, Muséum National d'histoire Naturelle, UA 1209, 43 Rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France Elion P. Petrole Ingeneering S.A., 21 Avenue Victor Hugo, Paris, France Geological Magazine Cambridge University Press 126/3(1989-05), 291-299 0016-7568 126:3<291 1989 126 GEO https://doi.org/10.1017/S001675680002238X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S001675680002238X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Orszag-Sperber F. Laboratoire de Pétrologie Sédimentaire et Paléontologie, Université Paris-Sud (Orsay), UA 723, 91405-Orsay Cedex, France NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rouchy J. M. Laboratoire de Géologie, Muséum National d'histoire Naturelle, UA 1209, 43 Rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Elion P. Petrole Ingeneering S.A., 21 Avenue Victor Hugo, Paris, France NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Geological Magazine Cambridge University Press 126/3(1989-05), 291-299 0016-7568 126:3<291 1989 126 GEO CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge