The recent crustal deformation of the Hellenic orogen in Central Greece; the Kremasta and Sperchios Fault Systems and their relationship with the adjacent large structural features

The 70 km long WNW-ESE trending Kremasta and Sperchios Fault Systems cutting at high angle the Pindos Mountain range in Central Greece have been defined and mapped in detail. The geometry and kinematics of both fault systems including normal faults that have been reactivated since Quaternary define a contemporary N-S extensional stress regime. In more regional scale, both the Kremasta and Sperchios Fault Systems represent an underlapping extensional zone between the Cephalonia Transform Fault and the North Anatolia Fault and form with the Corinth Gulf Fault System in Central Greece antithetic domino-type trailing faults in respect to the SSW-wards motion of the Aegean block.