Corrigendum to “The kinematics of central-southern Turkey and northwest Syria revisited” [Tectonophysics 618 (2014) 35–66]

• Published in: Tectonophysics 2014, Vol.630, p.319-320
• Main Authors: Seyrek, Ali, Demir, Tuncer, Westaway, Rob, Guillou, Hervé, Scaillet, Stéphane, White, Tom S., Bridgland, David R.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Humanities and Social Sciences; Sciences of the Universe; Volcanology
• ISSN: 0040-1951; 1879-3266
• DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.07.014

The authors regret to inform that there is a need to make correction to the published article and the corrected text is provided here. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.The Seyrek et al. (2014) synthesis of active crustal deformation in the northeast Mediterranean region combines offshore data with onshore evidence from central-southern Turkey and northwest Syria. The part of this synthesis integrating data from within and offshore of northwest Syria made extensive reference to Hardenberg and Robertson, 2007 and Hardenberg and Robertson, 2013. Part of this critique involved the presumption that the offshore seismic line located in Fig. 2 and depicted in Fig. 5 of Hardenberg and Robertson (2013) was in fact seismic line 5 of Vidal et al., 2000a and Vidal et al., 2000b, which Hardenberg and Robertson (2013) had plotted in the wrong place. However, subsequent discussions with Mat Hardenberg and Alastair Robertson have established, on the contrary, that they depicted a different seismic line. Thus, although there is no error in the Seyrek et al. (2014) interpretation of the geology or sense of active crustal deformation in the study region, a mistake was evidently made in the preparation of our paper, which this present note seeks to clarify.Given the current political situation, which makes additional substantive work in Syria unlikely for the foreseeable future, it is helpful to clarify the source of the above-mentioned confusion so mistakes arising from it do not propagate farther when research in Syria eventually resumes. We thus note, first, that Mat and Alastair have explained that the reference to ‘offshore seismic evidence’ on p. 234 of Hardenberg and Robertson (2007) is not to Vidal et al. (2000a), even though the latter is the only publication on seismic reflection data from the region immediately offshore of Syria that they cited, it is to an unpublished offshore dataset collected in 1975 by Spectrum Energy. Likewise, the acknowledgement on p. 468 of Hardenberg and Robertson (2013) that ‘We are grateful to Shell Syria for helping to sponsor the fieldwork and Spectrum Energy for providing access to 2D seismic data.’ is also referring to this 1975 seismic dataset, even though it does not say so and the wording in relation to fieldwork creates the impression that it relates to seismic data from somewhere onshore in Syria. Neither of the Hardenberg and Robertson (2013) figures that report seismic data makes any mention of Spectrum