Open AccessTHREE-DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF NORMAL FAULT ZONES IN KARDIA MINE, PTOLEMAIS BASIN, NW GREECE
Author(s) -
Efstratios Delogkos,
Tom Manzocchi,
Conrad Childs,
Christos Sachanidis,
T. Barmpas,
Alexandros Chatzipetros,
John J. Walsh,
Spyros Pavlides
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
deltio tīs ellīnikīs geōlogikīs etaireias/deltio tīs ellīnikīs geōlogikīs etaireias
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2529-1718
pISSN - 0438-9557
DOI - 10.12681/bgsg.21340
Subject(s) - outcrop , geology , fault (geology) , normal fault , georeference , seismology , structural basin , high resolution , scale (ratio) , resolution (logic) , geomorphology , remote sensing , cartography , geography , physical geography , artificial intelligence , computer science
Six normal fault zones, with throws ranging from a few meters up to 50 m, were studied within an active, open pit, lignite mine in Ptolemais. Each fault was mapped 20 times over a period of five years because at intervals of ca. 3 months working faces are taken back between 20 and 50 m exposing fresh fault outcrops for mapping.Various resolutions of photographs and structural measurements were imported into a fully georeferenced 3D structural interpretation package, resulting in aseismic scale and outcrop resolution 3D fault volume with outcrop and panoramic photographs acting as the seismic sections in equivalent seismic surveys. Low resolution 3D models for the fault system structure at mine scale and higher-resolution 3D models for the fault zone structure were produced after geological interpretation and they can be used for qualitative and quantitative analysis.