PALEOSEISMICITY OF THE SOULI FAULT, EPIRUS, WESTERN GREECE

The E-W trending left-lateral Souli Fault, an old Alpine structure in Epirus, northwestern Greece, affecting Lias-Eocene carbonate and silic eous rocks and Oligocene-Burdigalian flysch exhibits geological eviden ce of past individual coseismic events. Along some sectors of the faul t, or in associated structures, young morphotectonic features have bee n recognised thereby emphasising the recency of tectonic activity. In a natural paleoseismological section, at least three distinct seismic events ore-and post-dating wedge layers of 20,000 to 26,000 yr (C14) l ignite type sediments, have been recognised. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ltd.