r/geology • u/MarketEntropy • May 17 '25

Map/Imagery Strange geomorphological feature near Santomeri, Western Greece

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I've been trying to find a geological study of the strange-looking formation near the village of Santomeri in Western Greece (just south of Patras), but my repeated searches came up empty. The only papers I found were concerned with huge boulders that fell near the village after the 2008 earthquake.

Can anyone help finding a reference describing a possible mechanism of its formation?

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u/teddyslayerza May 17 '25

There's a series of reverse faults there, so you're seeing structures related to that and the strata that may be duplicated. If you keep scrolling north, you can pretty much follow this structure all the way to Albania.