Quaternary tectonics in the Gulf of Patras, western Greece |
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| Authors: | G Ferentinos M Brooks T Doutsos |
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| Institution: | Department of Geology, University of Patras, Patras, Greece;Department of Geology, University College Cardiff, Cardiff CF1 1XL, U.K.;Department of Geology, University of Patras, Patras, Greece |
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| Abstract: | Air gun seismic and 3.5 kHz profiling data from the Gulf of Patras, western Greece, show that it is occupied by a small asymmetric graben with several geometric similarities to the larger-scale graben in the Gulf of Corinth to the east. Major listric faulting characterizes the southern flank of the graben whilst the northern flank represents an associated rollover structure affected by antithetic and synthetic faulting. The present phase of subsidence is of Holocene age, but buried growth faults suggest earlier subsidence in the Gulf. The average rate of subsidence through the Holocene is estimated to be 10 mm/year.The Gulf of Patras graben, together with the Gulf of Corinth graben and the Megara basin, represent a continuous system of WNW-ESE trending grabens in a broad zone of intense seismicity within the Aegean domain. Individual grabens are offset and are interconnected by NE-SW trending fault systems. |
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