KINEMATICS OF ANATOLIA-AEGEA WITH RESPECT TO STABLE EUROPE BASED ON ACOMBINATION OF SLR AND GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS OVER 80 YEARS

We combine SLR measurements with 78 displacement vectors obtained at c ommon points of two triangulation nets measured in Central Greece betw een 1895 and 1975 to compute the velocity field over Greece with respe ct to Europe. Whereas the velocity field in Peloponnesus and Aegea fit s reasonably well the counterclockwise rotation best describing the An atolian extrusion (which has been independently obtained from SLR meas urements), the northern Greek one approximately fits a clockwise rotat ion centered near 42-degrees-N, 16-degrees-E (2.4-degrees/Ma). The res ulting differential pole is centered near Athens and results in NS ext ension in the Gulf of Corinth at a rate increasing westward to 1.5 cm/ y near Patras.