Abstract
The Mediterranean Ridge, stretching from the Calabrian Rise to the Florence Rise, is the largest structural unit of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. It is directly related to ongoing convergence and collision of the African and Eurasian plates, starting in the Oligocene, and is considered to be a giant accretionary complex consisting of intensively folded and faulted rocks of the African margin. Since its origin in the late Miocene, the Ridge continued to grow up and outward, experiencing more deformation because of the developing collision. The mud diapirism and mud volcanism are usual and wide-spread phenomena for the Mediterranean Ridge that developed as a result of an intensive tectonic overburden due to stacking of rock units by thrusting and strong lateral compressional stress pressing up and squeezing plastic sedimentary series out onto the seafloor.
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