Seismic coastal uplift in a region of subsidence: Holocene raised shorelines of Samos Island, Aegean Sea, Greece

Geomorphic and biological indicators of paleoseismicity and Holocene uplift rate at a coastal normal fault footwall (western Corinth Gulf, Greece)

“…These organisms live just below MSL (e.g. Stiros et al, 2000) and thus indicate that the 0.4-0.5 m platform cannot have the same age as the contemporary one.…”

“…This is due to absence of littoral bioconstructions or fauna assemblages indicative of a paleo-mid-littoral zone in unambiguous association with the surveyed notches and platforms (e.g. Laborel and Laborel-Deguen, 1994;Stiros et al, 2000). Rare exceptions of fauna with a clear relationship to specific paleoshorelines were gastropods in cemented material (beachrock) that we could discern to be different that the conglomerate "bedrock" on bench D at location 10 (possibly also 51), and a small vermetid tube on the beachrock at location 56.…”

Coastal notches: Their morphology, formation, and function

“…Limestone notches, which are generally assumed to have been cut by bioerosion or chemical dissolution, have been particularly important in determining the effect of late Holocene tectonic events around the microtidal coasts of Italy, Greece, Turkey, and elsewhere in the Mediterranean (Pirazzoli et al, 1982(Pirazzoli et al, , 1989(Pirazzoli et al, , 1994aStewart and VitaFinzi, 1996;Rust and Kershaw, 2000;Stiros et al, 2000;Kershaw and Guo, 2001;Benac et al, 2004;Ramırez-Herrera et al, 2004;Antonioli et al, 2006;Morhange et al, 2006;Vacchi et al, 2012;Evelpidou et al, 2012bEvelpidou et al, ,c, 2014Abad, 2013). Rapid seismic activity in the Mediterranean has been punctuated by intervening periods characterized by slow crustal deformation.…”

Geometry of Holocene Tidal Notches – Sea Level Markers at Perachora Peninsula, Gulf of Corinth, Greece

“…When the present-day sea level differs from equivalent older features above or below the tidal range, coastal uplift or subsidence, respectively, can be inferred. Owing to the high seismic activity the Mediterranean, carbonatic coastlines can reveal many examples of raised tidal notches that have been measured and described in the past four decades (Pirazzoli et al, 1982(Pirazzoli et al, , 1989(Pirazzoli et al, , 1991Pirazzoli, 1986;Firth et al, 1996;Laborel et al, 1999;Rust and Kershaw, 2000;Stiros et al, 2000;Kershaw and Guo, 2001;Shaw et al, 2008;Evelpidou et al, 2012aEvelpidou et al, , 2014Boulton andStewart, 2015 Antonioli et al, 2015).…”