Its contour and detailed relief are described for the first time. Available heat flow measurements show very low values under the Ionian Abyssal plain, suggesing a very old age of 180-200 Ma for the basin. The Ionian Abyssal Plain is one of the varying types of foreland. and around the Ionian Abyssal Plain. The graded, sandy base is 1.3 m thick. Read "The Kefalonia Transform Zone (offshore Western Greece) with special emphasis to its prolongation towards the Ionian Abyssal Plain, Marine Geophysical Research" on DeepDyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at … Hieke et al. , 2003 ], well‐defined by the 4000 m depth isobath and bounded to the South by the Medina Seamounts ( Figure 2 ). The Ionian Abyssal Plain (IAP), located in the Central Mediterranean area is surrounded by the Medina Ridges to the South and by two subduction zones, accommodating the slow convergence between Africa and Eurasia: one beneath Calabria to the NW and the second beneath Greece to the NE. A homogenite layer thicker than 12 m, Holocene in age, occurs in the Ionian Abyssal Plain. The Ionian abyssal plain and its eastern side are floored by a crust already interpreted as oceanic (Finetti, 1982; De Voogdt et al., 1992; Catalano et al., 2000, 2001) or thinned continental (Cernobori et al., 1996). Based on published and hitherto unpublished seismic data, information on the thickness of the Plio-Quaternary and on the Messinian evaporites are presented. However, the microfossils are re-worked and poorly preserved and the sediments can be dated only approx-imately as late Pleistocene to late Pliocene in age. Recent seismic reflection data from the same deepest sector of the Ionian Sea [Gallais Deep-sea drilling recovered a lowermost Pliocene sequence of diagenetically altered sediment (Unit II) separating the overlying Pliocene open-marine deposits (Unit I) and the underlying end Messinian dolomitic mudstone with gypsum layers (Unit III). The deep Ionian Abyssal Plain (IAP) is the foreland of the Calabrian prism to the NW and of the western Mediterranean Ridge to the NE . Mar. found at DSDP Leg 42A, Site 374 in the Ionian Abyssal Plain. Geol., 55: 63--78. The state of knowledge for that is presented. Most of the layer is structureless and homo- geneous in grain size and mineral composition. The Ionian Abyssal Plain (IAP), located in the Central Mediterranean area is a deep triangular shaped basin, surrounded by the Calabrian subduction zone to the NW, the Mediterranean Ridge to the NE and the Medina Ridges to the South. Based on the low heat flow values in the Ionian abyssal plain at about 4000 m depth (34 mW m −2), Della Vedova & Pellis (1989) proposed an age of 180–200 Myr for the oceanic embayment; the 90 km thick lithosphere (Calcagnile & Panza 1981) also supports an old age for this crust. In addition, sea bottom topography and fault plane solutions are combined in order to explore the prolongation of the KTZ into the Ionian Abyssal Plain (IoAP) and to describe its properties. The present-day position of the IAP The lower portion The seismic characteristics of the Ionian crust strongly … A thick Holocene homogenite from the Ionian Abyssal Plain (eastern Mediterranean). It is a deep triangular basin roughly 5000 km 2 in area [ Hieke et al. Ionian abyssal plain Sirte abyssal plain Libyan promontory Herodotus abyssal plain Levantine basin Nile cone Mud volcano elds a. Kephalonia b. Cobblestone c. Medee d. Pan di Zucchero e. Beautemps-Beaupre f. Olimpi, Prometheus 2 g. United Nations h. Strabo i. Anaximander mountains j. Florence rise k. Nile cone [2003] from the deepest (>4000 m) abyssal plain sector of the Ionian Sea were interpreted as showing a series of blocks tilted before Messinian, and considered at odds with the oceanic crust hypothesis.