The Tyrnavos Fault (TF) is an ESE-WNW trending, north-dipping dip-slip normal fault representing one of the major tectonic structures bordering the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Tyrnavos Basin, Northern Thessaly, Greece. The fault affects Quaternary and Pliocene deposits and mainly the Triassic crystalline limestone of the Pelagonian basement. According to previous researches, the TF has been clearly geometrically and kinematically characterised. A well-defined fault trace has been mapped for more than 12 km, while remote sensing techniques allow to follow it further East across the northern Larissa Plain, thus giving a possible total length of almost 20 km. In this note, the results of a palaeoseismological investigation carried out along the fault will be presented and discussed.
Palaeoseismological trenches across the Tyrnavos Fault, Central Greece
CAPUTO, Riccardo;
2004
Abstract
The Tyrnavos Fault (TF) is an ESE-WNW trending, north-dipping dip-slip normal fault representing one of the major tectonic structures bordering the Late Pleistocene-Holocene Tyrnavos Basin, Northern Thessaly, Greece. The fault affects Quaternary and Pliocene deposits and mainly the Triassic crystalline limestone of the Pelagonian basement. According to previous researches, the TF has been clearly geometrically and kinematically characterised. A well-defined fault trace has been mapped for more than 12 km, while remote sensing techniques allow to follow it further East across the northern Larissa Plain, thus giving a possible total length of almost 20 km. In this note, the results of a palaeoseismological investigation carried out along the fault will be presented and discussed.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
