NEOTECTONICS IN HISTORICAL TIMES - THE EXAMPLE OF THE BAY-OF-AGHIOS ANDREAS (ILIA, GREECE)

The analysis of sediments, of their position and stratigraphy allows t he correction of a recent hypothesis assuming a direct link between an earthquake, the interruption of human settlement and a submersion. Al though human occupancy may have been interrupted following the earthqu ake, the submersion of the antique town may not necessarily have been linked with the same event; it may even have been the cause of its aba ndonment. Finally, the submersion, which need not have been very quick or of a catastrophic seismic nature, was followed by a slow and less extended reversal of the tectonic movement.