Mechernich, Silke ORCID: 0000-0003-3684-040X, Schneiderwind, Sascha, Mason, Jack, Papanikolaou, Ioannis D., Deligiannakis, Georgios ORCID: 0000-0002-3620-6153, Pallikarakis, Aggelos, Binnie, Steven A., Dunai, Tibor J. and Reicherter, Klaus (2018). The Seismic History of the Pisia Fault (Eastern Corinth Rift, Greece) From Fault Plane Weathering Features and Cosmogenic Cl-36 Dating. J. Geophys. Res.-Solid Earth, 123 (5). S. 4266 - 4285. WASHINGTON: AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION. ISSN 2169-9356

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Abstract

The deformation of the eastern Corinth rift (Greece) is distributed along several E-W trending active normal faults. Here the 25-km-long Pisia fault experienced up to 150 cm of coseismic displacement during the 1981 Alkyonides earthquake sequence (M=6.7, 6.4, 6.3). Using terrestrial laser scanning, coupled with analyses of color changes, lichen colonization, and karstic features, we identify differentially weathered horizontal stripes on the exposed Pisia fault plane. The stripe boundaries occur at scarp heights of 1.10, 2.05, 2.85, 3.60, 4.15, and 5.15 m, with two additional possible boundaries at 3.10 and 4.65 m +/- 0.1 m, respectively). This indicates that six to eight paleoearthquakes have exhumed the fault plane in a series of distinct coseismic slip events. A vertical profile of cosmogenic Cl-36 measurements is used to constrain age models of the exhumation. The results imply that, in addition to the last earthquake of 1981 (EQ1), exhumation events occurred at similar to 2.0 kyr (EQ2), similar to 3.1 kyr (EQ3), similar to 4.5 kyr (EQ4/4a,b), similar to 6.0 kyr (EQ5), and similar to 7.3 kyr (EQ6/6a,b), with modeled age uncertainties of similar to 0.7kyr. Bayesian modeling provides a middle and late Holocene slip rate of 0.5-0.6mm/yr (last 7.30.7 kyr), while the upper part of the 8.45-m-high fault plane was exhumed at a higher rate of 0.8-2.3 mm/yr (7.3 +/- 0.7 kyr to 10.2 +/- 1.9 kyr). This slip rate variability suggests an increased seismicity or larger slip events during the early Holocene.

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Mechernich, SilkeUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0003-3684-040XUNSPECIFIED
Schneiderwind, SaschaUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Mason, JackUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Papanikolaou, Ioannis D.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Deligiannakis, GeorgiosUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0002-3620-6153UNSPECIFIED
Pallikarakis, AggelosUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Binnie, Steven A.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Dunai, Tibor J.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Reicherter, KlausUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-187413
DOI: 10.1029/2017JB014600
Journal or Publication Title: J. Geophys. Res.-Solid Earth
Volume: 123
Number: 5
Page Range: S. 4266 - 4285
Date: 2018
Publisher: AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
Place of Publication: WASHINGTON
ISSN: 2169-9356
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY; QUATERNARY EVOLUTION; SURFACE OBSERVATIONS; PERACHORA PENINSULA; DEFORMATION RATES; ALKYONIDES GULF; SLIP DIRECTIONS; FOCAL MECHANISM; WEST EXTENSION; EARTHQUAKEMultiple languages
Geochemistry & GeophysicsMultiple languages
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/18741

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