I. Stewart et C. Vitafinzi, COASTAL UPLIFT ON ACTIVE NORMAL FAULTS - THE ELIKI FAULT, GREECE, Geophysical research letters, 23(14), 1996, pp. 1853-1856
The Eliki Fault forms part of a system of major normal fault segments
that borders the southern margin of the Gulf of Corinth half graben. R
adiocarbon dating of elevated marine fossils reveals broadly uniform H
olocene coastal uplift, at a time-averaged rate of 1.5 mm/yr, both alo
ng the Eliki Fault and in the transfer zone that separates it from the
neighbouring fault segment. Coseismic uplift increments are considere
d to account for only a minor part of the 6 m of emergence recorded he
re in the last 3000 years. Reappraisal of shoreline data From the Pera
chora Peninsula at the eastern end of the Gulf of Corinth indicates a
similar, though less rapid (0.7 mm/yr), pattern of uniform Holocene em
ergence. As these Holocene coastal records embody both coseismic and i
nterseismic deformation they can be used to characterise longterm tect
onic strain.