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Mediterranean Sea

Libya / Sicily Offshore

On this Canvas autotrace of a composite seismic line through the Libya and SE Sicily offshore, not only the Libyan Atlantic-type Margin is, easily, recognized but the Ionian escarpment as well. The Atlantic-type margin, which overlaps rift-type basins (extended Pangea continental crust), represents the post-Pangea continental encroachment stratigraphic cycle, induced by the second 1^st order Phanerozoic eustatic cycle i.,e, the post-Pangea eustatic cycle. The Ionnian escarpment, between the Pelagian shelf (one of the three physiographic provinces of the Libyan offshore: Pelagian Shelf, Syrte Embayment, Cyrenaica Offshore) and the Ionian Abyssal Plain, which is sandwiched between the Calabrian and Hellenic subduction zones that seems to be a remnant of the Tethys oceanic lithosphere rather than a strongly thinned part of the African continental crust (Dannowski A. et al., 2019). The southern limit of the Meso-Cenozoic megasuture is located northward of the seismic line of this auto trace as pictured on the location map.