Quaternary marine terraces as indicators of neotectonic activity of the Ierapetra normal fault SE Crete (Greece)

Formation of Late Quaternary paleoshorelines in Crete, Eastern Mediterranean

“…The ages of Cretan paleoshorelines in the literature are mainly derived from radiocarbon dating in western Crete (N > 70 samples) (Pirazzoli et al, 1982(Pirazzoli et al, , 1996Wegmann, 2008;Shaw et al, 2008Shaw et al, , 2010Strasser et al, 2011;Tiberti et al, 2014), with small numbers of samples dated in eastern and western Crete using the Optically Stimulated Luminescence (N = 8), 10 Be (N = 4) and 36 Cl (N = 3) techniques (Wegmann, 2008;Gaki-Papanastassiou et al, 2009;Gallen et al, 2014;Strobl et al, 2014). Collectively, the resulting ages range from 0.5-600 kyr BP and here we focus on those paleoshorelines dated by the radiocarbon technique which range from ∼0.5 to 48 cal.…”

Middle-Late Quaternary Geodynamics of Crete, Southern Aegean, and Seismotectonic Implications

“…Indeed, a strong tectonic uplift started about 0.6 Ma ago as recorded by Middle-Late Pleistocene marine terraces (Angelier and Gigout, 1974;Angelier, 1975;1979;Angelier et al, 1977;Gaki-Papanastassiou et al, 2009) and Holocene raised notches (Pirazzoli et al, 2008;Shaw et al, 2008) as well as by deeply entrenched valleys associated with alluvial and/or transitional coarse-grained sediments along the major depressions.…”

Morphotectonic analysis, structural evolution/pattern of a contractional ridge: Giouchtas Mt., Central Crete, Greece

“…At location (4), N10-20E fault post-dates the older N110-112E trending structure, while it is cut by a N160-165E fault (Location 7 in figure 3). It is also noteworthy, that ten Veen and Postma (1999) referred the strong vertical fault movement along N020E, including the Sitia Fault Zone, Ierapetra Fault Zone (Gaki-Papanastassiou et al 2009;Alves and Lourenço 2010) and the W Dikti Fault Zone.…”