Geology for Global Development

Friday Photo (57): Active Geology – Sinking Buildings from Ancient Greece

Rosalie Tostevin November 16, 2012 Active geology, Greece, Photos 1 Comment

These foundations were once part of a building in ancient Greece. Over thousands of years, active faults have lowered the land and the foundations have sunk below sea level. Geology can have a big impact on relatively short timescales.

Active faulting Ancient Greece Friday Photo

By Rosalie Tostevin

Rosalie was the Himalayas Programme Officer for Geology for Global Development and writer for the GfGD blog. She is a geochemist and a postdoc at the University of Oxford.

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Matt Herod November 17, 2012, 7:21 pm

Cool!! I love the intersection between geology and the classics. Check out this post at my old blog on the rediscovery of Ithaca. http://globalgeology.blogspot.ca/2012/06/odyssey-and-geology-search-for-ithaca.html

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