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I guess my interest in Greece goes back to my A levels at Worthing VIth Form College and courses in Ancient History. But, it was not until my time as an undergraduate that I first visited the country to work on my Undergraduate mapping project. This was in the northern Mani around Oitylon, an old town dating back to at least Homer. This work was reactivated whilst at Chicago with David Rowley, and continues to be an 'active' though little published area of my research (Rowley and Markwick, 1992). Our main interest has been the tectonic and metamorphic evolution of the Taygetos Mountains and the implications of this for the history of Apulia and thereby the collisional history of the central Mediterranean.
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LEFT: Oitylon (in the distance) overlooking the Bay of Oitylon. Mesozoic carbonates form the high ground, with the bay itself marking the line of a fault bounded graben filled with Plio-Pleistocene marine sands. Recent uplift of this margin is readily apparent when it's considered that the Plio-Pleistocene sands extend up to the level of Oiylon itself, now several hundred metres above sea-level.
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