Neotectonic evolution of an actively growing superimposed basin in Western Anatolia: The Inner Bay of İzmir, Turkey

İzmir Bay is an actively growing shallow marine basin controlled by active faults trending NE, NW, N–S and E–W, in the West Anatolian Extensional Province. The bay of İzmir is a lazy L-shaped superimposed basin which is topographically divided into an E–W-trending inner bay and a NW-trending outer bay