Marine Terraces (IMAGE)

GFZ Helmholtz-Zentrum für Geoforschung

Marine Terraces

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Flight of marine terraces on the south coastline of Crete, Greece, eastern Mediterranean. The lower prominent paleoshoreline (indicated by the red-line) records tectonic rock uplift during the 365 AD M>8 earthquake. The higher marine terraces (indicated by the yellow-lines) record cumulative uplift over many earthquake-cycles that occurred during the last 125,000 years.

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Vasiliki Mouslopoulou, GFZ

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