Morphotectonic control on drainage network evolution in the Perachora Peninsula, Greece

Maroukian, H.; Gaki-Papanastassiou, Kalliopi; Karymbalis, Efthimios; Vouvalidis, Konstantinos; Pavlopoulos, Kosmas; Papanastassiou, D.; Albanakis, K.

doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.07.021

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“…They are in particular fairly continuously preserved between Corinth and Xylokastro (Keraudren and Sorel, 1987;Collier etal., 1992;Keraudren et al, 1995;Armijo etal., 1996), but also on the footwall of the Aegion and Heliki faults between Aegion and Akrata (De Martini et al, 2004;McNeill and Collier, 2004;McNeill et al, 2005). Stepped marine terraces have also been observed at both the eastern and western ends of the rift, respectively in the Perachora Peninsula (Dia et al, 1997;Morewood and Roberts, 1999;Maroukian et al, 2008) and on the footwall of the Psathopyrgos fault (Houghton et al, 2003) (Fig. 1).…”

Section: Naf: North Anatolian Faultmentioning

confidence: 97%

Patterns of Quaternary uplift of the Corinth rift southern border (N Peloponnese, Greece) revealed by fluvial landscape morphometry

2015

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The Rift of Corinth is a world-class example of young active rifting and, as such, is an ideal natural laboratory of continental extension. However, though much investigated for two decades, several aspects of the mechanisms at work are still poorly understood. The aim of this paper is a detailed morphometric study of the fluvial landscape response to the tectonic uplift of the rift southern shoulder in order to reconstruct the rift's Quaternary evolution, with special attention to timing, location, and intensity of uplift episodes. Based on the use of a large set of catchment and long profile metrics complemented by the new R/S R integrative approach of the regional drainage network, we identified three distinct episodes of uplift of the northern Peloponnese coastal tract, of which the intermediate one, dated around 0.35-0.4 Ma, is only recorded in the topography of the central part of the rift shoulder, and the youngest one appears to have propagated from east to west over the last 10-20 ka. While net uplift remained minimum in the eastern part of the study area during the whole Quaternary, it shows a clear maximum in the central part of the rift shoulder since 0.4 Ma and an eastward shift of this maximum in recent times. Maximum uplift rates calculated from the morphometric data are of > 1.05 and 2-5 mm year -1 for, the mid-Middle Pleistocene and Holocene uplift episodes, respectively. The morphometric evidence reveals an onshore uplift history remarkably consistent with the rift evolution reconstructed from other data sets. In the long term, it shows a stable pattern of maximum activity in the central part of the rift, confirming previous conclusions about the absence of rift propagation. In the short term, it sheds light on a possible E-W migration of the zone of recent uplift, suggesting that in the near future fault activity and seismic hazard might concentrate in the Heliki-Aegion area, at the western tip of this uplift wave.

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Section: Naf: North Anatolian Faultmentioning

confidence: 97%

Patterns of Quaternary uplift of the Corinth rift southern border (N Peloponnese, Greece) revealed by fluvial landscape morphometry

2015

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“…Turcotte et al, 2000;Robl et al, 2008;Ariza-Villaverde et al, 2015). The analysis of drainage networks helps to define geologically recent deformations (e.g., Zernitz, 1932;Ray, 1960;Ouchi, 1985;Goldsworthy and Jackson, 2000;Clark et al, 2004;Terrizzano et al, 2014), since stream channels are very sensitive to the type and orientation of geological structures (e.g., Seeber and Gornitz, 1983;Schumm and Geophysics Study Committee, 1986;Davison et al, 1998;Holbrook and Schumm, 1999;Valdiya and Rajagopalan, 2000;Schumm et al, 2002;Ribolini and Spagnolo, 2007;Maroukian et al, 2008;Shahzad et al, 2009). Anomalies identified along stream networks and profiles can provide clues to understanding structural control on the geomorphic configuration of any region at both regional and local scales (e.g., Zernitz, 1932;Ray, 1960;Seeber and Gornitz, 1983;Clark et al, 2004;Twidale, 2004).…”

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“…In tectonically active regions, drainage networks are often strongly influenced by the type and orientation of geological structures (e.g., Davison et al, 1998;Holbrook and Schumm, 1999;Schumm et al, 2002;Ribolini and Spagnolo, 2007;Maroukian et al, 2008;Shahzad et al, 2009). They represent local anomalous deviations from the expected drainage patterns, and are helpful in the recognition of neotectonic activity in different tectonic settings.…”

Section: Delineation Of Drainage Networkmentioning

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Detection and analysis of morphotectonic features utilizing satellite remote sensing and GIS: An example in SW Jordan

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This study investigates the dominant orientations of morphological features and the relationship between these trends and the spatial orientation of tectonic structures in SW Jordan. Landsat 8 and hill-shaded images, constructed from 30 m-resolution ASTER-GDEM data, were used for automatically extracting and mapping geological lineaments. The ASTER-GDEM was further utilized to automatically identify and extract drainage network. Morphological features were analyzed by means of azimuth frequency and length density distributions. Tectonic controls on the land surface were evaluated using longitudinal profiles of many westerly flowing streams. The profiles were taken directly across the northerly trending faults within a strong topographic transition between the low-gradient uplands and the deeply incised mountain front on the east side of the Dead Sea Fault Zone. Streams of the area are widely divergent, and show numerous anomalies along their profiles when they transect faults and lineaments. Five types of drainage patterns were identified: dendritic, parallel, rectangular, trellis, and modified dendritic/trellis. Interpretation and analysis of the lineaments indicate the presence of four main lineament populations that trend ~E-W, ~N-S, NE-SW, and NW-SE. Azimuthal distribution analysis of both the measured structures and drainage channels shows similar trends, except for very few differences in the prevailing directions. The similarity in orientation of lineaments, drainage system, and subsurface structural trends highlights the degree of control exerted by underlying structure on the surface geomorphological features. Faults and lineaments serve as a preferential conduit for surface running waters. The extracted lineaments were divided into five populations based on the main age of host rocks outcropping in the study area to obtain information about the temporal evolution of the lineament trends through geologic time. A general consistency in lineament trends over the different lithological units was observed, most probably because repeated reactivation of tectonism along preexisting deep structural discontinuities which are apparently crustal weakness zones. The reactivation along such inherited discontinuities under the present-day stress field is the most probable explanation of the complicated pattern and style of present-day landscape features in SW Jordan.

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“…Its results has already been commonly applied in tectonic and geomorphological studies of several areas (Caiazzo et al, 2006;Cotilla et al, 2007;D'Alessandro et al, 2008;Grohmann et al, 2007;Jelínek et al, 2009Jelínek et al, , 2011Jordan, 2003;Kukowski et al, 2008;Masoud, Koike, 2011;Miliaresis, 2001;Minár et al, 2011;Mumipour, Nejad, 2011;Norini et al, 2004;Rehak et al, 2008;Seta et al, 2008;Sung, Chen, 2004;Zuchiewicz, 2009;etc.). The established morphological lineament network forms a study foundation of for example: neo-tectonic activities of areas of interest (Arzhannikova et al, 2011;Delcaillau et al, 2010;Gioia et al, 2011;Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger et al, 2009), study of the river network genesis (Maroukian et al, 2008;Štěpančíková et al, 2008;Zuchiewicz, 1998Zuchiewicz, , 2011, study of landslide hazard (Cadoppi et al, 2007;Kokkalas, Koukouvelas, 2005;Pánek et al, 2009;Marschalko et al, 2011), etc.. In the field of applied geology, the MSA is frequently used in studies of tectonic deformation of the rock massif.…”

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The application of morphostructural analysis and its validation by comparison with documented faults within the Zlate Hory ore district (the northeastern part of the Bohemian Massif)

Jelı́nek¹

2013

Acta Geodynamica Et Geomaterialia

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The goal of this study is to determine the validity of morpholineaments network that was inferred based on morphostructural analysis of digital elevation model (DEM), by crosschecking with documented faults. The test field has been spread over the exploitation areas in the Zlaté Hory ore district. Various morphometric analyses such as slope, aspect, first directional derivative, gradient operator, combination of altitude and shaded relief, were chosen as particular tools of the morphostructural analysis. The results of each analysis were compared with the results of structural-tectonic mapping. The inferred morpholineaments network was compared with mining maps of the scale 1:500, which provide detailed information about tectonic deformation of rock massif in the area of interest and were used to image fault traces on the surface. The validity of inferred morpholineaments network was determined by authorized software SROV_TEKT, developed by the authors. The morpholineaments network resulting from the morphostructural analysis and tested by this software overlaps at 83 % of the documented main faults in the mines.

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Morphotectonic control on drainage network evolution in the Perachora Peninsula, Greece

Cited by 44 publications

References 26 publications

Patterns of Quaternary uplift of the Corinth rift southern border (N Peloponnese, Greece) revealed by fluvial landscape morphometry

Patterns of Quaternary uplift of the Corinth rift southern border (N Peloponnese, Greece) revealed by fluvial landscape morphometry

Detection and analysis of morphotectonic features utilizing satellite remote sensing and GIS: An example in SW Jordan

The application of morphostructural analysis and its validation by comparison with documented faults within the Zlate Hory ore district (the northeastern part of the Bohemian Massif)

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