| Title | Sedimentology and tectonic setting of the Pindos Flysch of the Peloponnese, Greece |
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| Author | Piper, D J W |
| Source | Tectonic development of the eastern Mediterranean region; by Robertson, A H F (ed.); Mountrakis, D (ed.); Geological Society, Special Publication no. 260, 2006 p. 493-505, https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.260.01.20 |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Alt Series | Earth Sciences Sector, Contribution Series 2004346 |
| Publisher | Geological Society of London |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Area | Pindos Flysch; Peloponnese; Greece |
| Lat/Long WENS | 20.0000 24.0000 42.0000 36.0000 |
| Subjects | sedimentology; general geology; tectonics; paleocurrents; facies analyses; tectonic interpretations; turbidites; Kataraktis Passage Member; Apulian continental margin |
| Illustrations | location maps; stratigraphic columns; diagrams |
| Program | Geoscience
for Oceans Management |
| Program | NSERC Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
Canada |
| Released | 2006 01 01 |
| Abstract | The Palaeogene Pindos Flysch of the Peloponnese shows important differences from the flysch of northern Greece. Stratigraphic sections and palaeocurrent indicators were measured in the Pindos Flysch
Formation and the underlying Kataraktis Passage Member throughout the Peloponnese. The Kataraktis Passage Member records carbonatedominated sedimentation from the Apulian continental margin to the west, with intercalated terrigenous sediment also
derived from the west. Variations in thickness and turbidite facies show that the overlying Pindos Flysch Formation was deposited in channels with levees and in channel-termination lobes in the western Peloponnese and in a distal basin plain, locally
ponded, in the east. At least in the central Peloponnese, facies variation, palaeocurrents
and detrital petrology show that the Pindos Flysch was derived from the Apulian margin. The Pindos Flysch of northern Greece, of late Paleocene to Oligocene
age, was deposited in a foreland basin and derived from the rising Pelagonian nappes to the east. A younger
microcontinental collision south of the Gulf of Corinth line resulted in the Pindos Flysch of the Peloponnese being incorporated in the
accretionary prism by Mid-Eocene time. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 216789 |
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