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Extensional tectonic regimes in the Aegean basins during the Cenozoic

Kinematics of faults in the Northern Aegean show three extensional tectonic regimes the tensional directions of which trend (1) WNW-ESE, (2) NE-SW and (3) N-S. These were active during the Upper Miocene, Pliocene-Lower Pleistocene and Mid Pleistocene-Present day, respectively. The main characteristics of the stress patterns (1) and (2) on the overall Aegean is tentatively explained by variations of the horizontal lithospheric stress value txx due to the slab 
push and of the vertical lithospheric stress value txx, due to mass heterogeneities. During the Mid Pleistocene-Present, due to the slab push, tectonics were compressional along the arc boundary: txx was t1. In the Aegean basins, tectonics were extensional, tzz was t1 as a consequence of the 
thickness of the continental crust and, possibly of an updoming asthenosphere; thus txx, became t2, allowing tension t3 to be orthogonal to the compression along the arc, i.e. to be roughly parallel to the arc trend. During the Pliocene-Lower Pleistocene, the extensional regime was distinctly different. The tensional directions were roughly radial to the arc. It is suggested that 
txx was weakly compressional, or eventually tensional, due a seaward migration of the slab so that txx became t3. In the Northern Aegean, the stress pattern has been also controlled by the westward push of the Anatolian landmass. During the Mid Pleistocene-Present day, this was typically extensional (t1 was vertical) and the right lateral strike-slip motion on the North Anatolian Fault transformed into a N-S-stretching, E-W-shortening (of the Northern Aegean. 
Dextral strike-slip motions along the North Aegean Trough fault zone were possible on NE-SW-striking faults. During the Pliocene-Lower Pleistocene, normal fault components were higher ; however, because the angle between the NE-SW trend of the tensional axis and the strike of the fault zone was acute, dextral strike-slip components were possible on all the faults striking NE-SW to E-W. A clockwise 15° rotation of Limnos with respect to Samothraki, 
Thraki and Thassos, suggested by structural data, was probably associated with these dextral motions. The WNW-ESE trending tension during the Upper Miocene indicates that the dextral North Anatolian Fault had not yet merged into the North Aegean Trough fault zone at that time. We propose that the formation of Aegean basins during the Cenozoic was related to the activity of two major Hellenic arcs. The \\\'Pelagonian-Pindic Arc\\\' resulted in the formation of the 
subsident Aegean basins of Middle Eocene-Lower Miocene age and of the older Northern Aegean orogenic volcanism. The \\\'Aegean Arc\\\' resulted in the formation of the subsident Aegean basins of Middie Miocene to Present day age and of the Southern Aegean orogenic volcanism. Were these arcs associated with a unique subduction zone or with two such zones? In the first case, the slab is no more than 16 Myr old, in the second it may be as old as 45-50 Myr. The answer depends on the accuracy of the seismic tomography profiles.