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Title

THE KEPHALONIA TRANSFORM-FAULT AND THE ROTATION OF THE APULIAN PLATFORM - EVIDENCE FROM SATELLITE GEODESY (EN)

Creator

KAHLE, HG (EN)

MUELLER, S (EN)

MULLER, MV (EN)

VEIS, G (EN)

Type

journalArticle (EN)

Partial document
Publication in journal (EN)

Article
Scientific article (EN)

Issued

2014-03-01T01:09:34Z

1993 (EN)

Year

1993 (EN)

Description

This paper describes a collaborative GPS-Project to determine recent crustal movements and deformations across the NE Ionian Sea. This region is characterized by riffing in the African Foreland (Pelagian Sea), subduction along the Calabrian and West Hellenic Arcs, rotation of the Italian peninsula and distributed normal faulting in Central Greece. From GPS-campaigns on the Ionian Islands and in NW Greece performed in 1989 and 1991 a kinematic field is deduced which is controlled by the deep trough following the NW coast of Kephalonia island. It is concluded that this prominent bathymetric feature resembles an active fault system (Kephalonia fault) which has the signature of a right-lateral transform fault. (EN)

Scientific field

Geosciences, Multidisciplinary (EN)

Natural Sciences
Earth and related Environmental Sciences (EN)

Subject

Active Fault (EN)

GREECE (EN)

Satellite Geodesy (EN)

ACTIVE TECTONICS (EN)

SEA (EN)

Journal

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS (EN)

Language