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The Helice Fault?
Author(s) -
Mouyaris N.,
Papastamatiou D.,
VitaFinzi C.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
terra nova
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.353
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1365-3121
pISSN - 0954-4879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-3121.1992.tb00457.x
Subject(s) - fault scarp , geology , fault (geology) , seismology
The site of the ancient Greek city of Helice, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 373 bc , has never been found. We propose that it was submerged as the result of seismic slip on a normal fault traceable SE of Egion and that the fault was reactivated in 1881, when Schmidt reported a fresh scarp 2 m high and 13 km in length at the same locality. Earlier movements on the fault are inferred from Lithophaga borings on coastal Sectors of the footwall which yield 14 C ages representing over 6.5 m of uplift in the last 4880 years.