Asprorema Cave (also known as Gardanska cave) in N. Greece, is a typical example of a fracture guided cave. Geometry of the passages is affected by relative movements of the sidewalls revealing that these discontinuities are faults (Lazaridis et al., 2022). The cave entrance is located at the escarpment of a NNW-SSE striking fault that also defines the valley of Asprorema stream.
Microscale and mesoscale cave morphology, such as scallops and symmetrical passages, have been formed by syntectonic speleogenesis. These dissolutional features are indicative of phreatic and epiphreatic conditions. The slip surfaces of the faults are not corroded suggesting that at least the most recent activations took place after the cave’s shifting from the phreatic/epiphreatic zone to the vadose zone.
References:
Lazaridis G., Katrivanos E., & Dora D. (2022). Spatio-temporal correlation of speleogenesis with active tectonics in Asprorema Cave (Mt. Pinovo, Greece). Proceedings of the XXII Congress of Carpathian Balkan Geological Association, Special Issue (pp. 167) CBGA.
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