Kaspakas Fault

The Kaspakas active fault appears north of the Kaspakas village. The fault is visible as a morphological rise in the hills east of the village. It is a large tectonic surface with a length of 11 km and a direction of NW-SE that was caused by recent seismic activity in the area that led the rock to break.

Faults are geological structures formed when strain in the Earth’s crust exceed the limit of rock strength, forcing it to break. The evidence of rock movement appears on the surface of the fault as scratches which are referred to as slip lines. These lines are critical for understanding the fault’s seismic activity.

The Kaspakas fault links rock formations of different ages together, specifically volcanic rocks (Upper Oligocene – Middle Miocene) and Molassic sediments (Eocene).

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