The Tectonic Significance Sedimentology and Palaeoenvironments Of Uplifted Marine Terraces In A Forearc Setting, Southern Greece

The Gulf of Corinth, Greece occupies a young continental rift in a forearc setting where~ flank rift uplift has raised fossil shorelines, creating flights of marine terraces. These palaeoshorelines are used as reference markers from which uplift amount is quantified, and associated marine fossils are dated to establish a chronology. These results are analysed to test the proposed mechanism ofuplift in published models ofthe ofthe study region. Minor faults probably network the region with throws of>1 m to