EUSTATIC AND TECTONIC CONTROLS UPON QUATERNARY COASTAL SEDIMENTATION IN THE CORINTH BASIN, GREECE

A series of beach-to-shoreface sub-sequences are seen, each characteristically having an overall fining-up character. These occur within a coastal facies belt which has prograded to the west. Computer modelling illustrates the interaction of tectonic displacements and eustatic sea-level variation as controls of facies patterns. Using available 230Th/234U dates to establish syn-depositional base-levels, minimum uplift rates of the order of 0.3 m ka-1 are calculated across the area, averaged through the late Pleistocene and Holocene. -from Author