Quaternary uplift and tilting of Amorgos Island (southern Aegean) and the 1956 earthquake

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Dec 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994e%26psl.128...65s&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters (ISSN 0012-821X), vol. 128, no. 3-4, p. 65-76

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Earthquakes, Geological Faults, Geomorphology, Islands, Sea Level, Stratigraphy, Dendrochronology, Microcrystals, Radiometric Correction

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Uplifted Pleistocene marine sediments, submerged ancient ruins and raised beaches confirm earlier views that the asymmetry of the relief of Amorgos Island (southern Aegean) testifies to a fault-bounded block uplifted and tilted along a SW-NE trending horizontal axis; the uplifted coast corresponds to a high-gradient slope controlled by an oblique master normal fault. Furthermore, geomorphic and biological evidence, radiometric data and comparison of aerial photographs indicates that the 1956 earthquake (Ms = 7.4) uplifted the footwall of this normal fault by about 30 cm.

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