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The Kephalonia Transform Fault and the rotation of the Apulian Platform: Evidence from satellite geodesy
Author(s) -
Kahle HansGert,
Müller Max V.,
Mueller Stephan,
Veis George
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
geophysical research letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.007
H-Index - 273
eISSN - 1944-8007
pISSN - 0094-8276
DOI - 10.1029/93gl00532
Subject(s) - geology , seismology , subduction , global positioning system , geodesy , bathymetry , peninsula , fault (geology) , foreland basin , transform fault , rift , geodetic datum , tectonics , geography , oceanography , telecommunications , archaeology , computer science
This paper describes a collaborative GPS‐Project to determine recent crustal movements and deformations across the NE Ionian Sea. This region is characterized by rifting in the African Foreland (Pelagian Sea), subduction along the Calabrian and West Hellenic Arcs, rotation of the Italian peninsula and distributed normal faulting in Central Greece. From GPS‐campaigns on the Ionian Islands and in NW Greece performed in 1989 and 1991 a kinematic field is deduced which is controlled by the deep trough following the NW coast of Kephalonia island. It is concluded that this prominent bathymetric feature resembles an active fault system (Kephalonia fault) which has the signature of a right‐lateral transform fault.