Gulf of Corinth, Greece

Data for this study include cores from Middle Jurassic sediments in the North Sea and Haltenbanken offshore Norway, and onshore faulted sediments from the Gulf of Corinth (Greece), Brora (Scotland) and Kvalvigen (Spitsbergen). 

Fig. 1. Data localities for the present study (KvalvSgen, Spitsbergen Tilje Formation, Haltenbanken Brent Group, Tampen Spur Brora, Scotland Gulf of Corinth, Greece).

Higgs, W.G. 1988. Syn-sedimentary structural controls on basin formation in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece. Basin Res., 1 155-165. 

Several methods have been proposed to stiffen these towers, such as adding four shafts to the towers as was done to the Rio Antirrio Bridge crossing of the Gulf of Corinth, Greece (Figure 3.19). A second method would be to use cables arranged in various ways to stiffen the towers externally but this is beyond the scope of this chapter. 

Papathoma, M. Dominey-Howes D. 2003. Tsunami vulnerability assessment and its implications for coastal hazard analysis and disaster management planning. Gulf of Corinth, Greece. Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 3,733-747. 

Vassilakis E, Royden L, Papanikolaou D (2011) Kinematic links between subduction along the Hellenic trench and extension in the Gulf of Corinth, Greece a multidisciplinary analysis. Earth Planet Sci Lett 303 108-120... 

Brooks, M. and Ferentinos, G. 1984. Tectonics and sedimentation in the Gulf of Corinth and the Zakynthos and Kefallinia channels, western Greece. Tectonophysics, 101 25-54. 

Ori, G.G. 1989. Geological history of the extensional basin of the Gulf of Corinth ( Miocene-Pleistocene), Greece. Geology, 17 918-921. 

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