COASTAL UPLIFT ON ACTIVE NORMAL FAULTS - THE ELIKI FAULT, GREECE

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.