Palaegeographic evolution of the Kerinthos coastal area (NE Evia island) during the late Holocene

Abstract

Preliminary results of a detailed study on the palaeogeographic evolution of the Kerinthos coastal archaeological area (N. Evia island) are presented. The coastal setting of Kerinthos has been subjected to important changes during the Late Holocene, under the influence of eustatic sea-level rise, progradation of the Voudhoros river alluvial plain, and tectonic uplift. Subsurface stratigraphie data indicate that Peleki, a naturally sheltered coastal embayment that has been partially infilled by Voudhoros alluvia since at least the Classical period, had been previously a shallow, low-energy brackish water coastal environment - since at least 5000 B.P. Coastal tectonic uplift of the order of 3 m during the last 5 millennia is inferred from 14C dated marsh deposits (0.6 mm/ yr minimum mean uplift rate).

Transverse fault zones of subtle geomorphic signature in northern Evia island (central Greece extensional province): An introduction to the Quaternary Nileas graben

“…This recent uplift is also responsible for the formation of the erosional surfaces at the floor of the depression. If we consider the Holocene uplift rate estimate of 0.6 mm/yr for the Aegean coast by Maroukian et al (2001) at ancient Kerinthos (Fig. 2c), the main surface system within the NDpr (180-200 m) may have been graded to sea-level high-stands of oxygen isotope stages 9 or 7 (roughly 350-200 kyr).…”