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Orthogneiss from the Rhodope massive

Orthogneiss


Rhodope massive, perfecture of Xanthi

Orthogneiss from the Rhodope massive in Xanthi.



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Granodiorite intruding Basalts

The old woman's cloths


Samothraki Island, perfecture of Evros

Accoding to the tales of the Samothracians an old woman was so evil that she could turn you into stone just by putting a spell on you. One day the wind got her clothes and she put a course on her old clothes. So they turned into rocks.

Granodiorite intruding Basalts



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Spider Marble Quarry

Spider Marble


Paggaio Mountain, perfecture of Kavala

The web like ornamentation of this marble gave this distinct marble its name.



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Mount Olympos

Olympian Gods' Home


Mount Olympus, perfecture of Pieria and Larissa

The Highest Mountain in Greece. Home of the ancient gods.


Mount Olympus doe not belong to any mountain geange in Greece. It is believed to be a tectonic window of the geotectonic belt of Gavrovo-Tripoli. The mountain's rocks are mainly limestones deposited during the Mesozoic Era (Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous) almost 200 million years ago.



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Hot springs and sulphur deposits

Hot springs in Thermes

Rhodope Mountains, perfecture of Xanthi

Hot springs are present in the Rhodope Mountains as a result of remnant magmatism



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Oil platform

Oil platforms

Kavala bay, perfecture of Kavala

A low relief faulted anticline, is trapping oil in the Prinos Group reservoir of Miocene Age at a depth of between 2490 and 2770 m



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Cave bears - Ursus Spaeleous

Ursus Spaeleous Loutraki

Aridea, perfecture of Pella

Fossils of cave bears from the Late Pleistocene found in a cave at Loutraki. The fossils are found between two calcite crusts. The ESR-absolute dating of the lower crust indicated an age more recent than 50.000 years (KAMBOUROGLOU & CHATZITHEODOROU, 1999). The U/Th absolute age of the fossiliferous layer ranges from 35.000 to 30.000 (dating of the two upper crust layers).



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Volcanic Rocks

Sacred Places carved into stone

Petrota, perfecture of Rhodopi

The sacred places of the ancient Thracians carved into the pyroclastic rocks



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Grey-Lais dolomitic marble from Falakron Mountain in Drama

Vi4m

Vision for Marble.

The project was run by the Humain Lab of the department of Computer Science of the Hellenic University of Greece in Kavala. The goal of this research is to develop a computer vision model capable of sorting marble tiles. Up to this time one publication has been published others are in press:


Texture Analysis for Machine Learning Based Marble Tiles Sorting



S. Sidiropoulos, A. Ouzounis,
G. A. Papakostas,
I. Sarafis, A. Stamkos, G. Solakis,

IEEE 11th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC) 2021

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Granite intruding basalts in Samothraki

Ml4V

Machine learning for Volcanoes

In this project a machine learning model was developed in order to discriminate the four volcanic regions of the Aegean Arc usig geochemic data. 10 machine learning algorithms were compared. Python language was used to implement the model and flask was used to deploy the application to the cloud.


Machine Learning in Discriminating Active Volcanoes of the Hellenic Volcanic Arc



Athanasios G. Ouzounis, George A. Papakostas


Applied Sciences. 2021; 11(18):8318. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11188318


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Orthogneiss from the Vermion Mountain in Veria

D&Sar

Deformation & Strain Analysis of Rocks

Quantifying the strain and the deformation of rocks formed in a natural enviromrnt. A case study from the Vermio Mountain.






Kinematic and Strain Analysis of Deformation of the Pelagonian Nappe in the Southern Vermio Mt (Northern Greece):


Ouzounis A., Kilias A. & Mountrakis D.


10th Coference of the Geologic Society of Greece.
Thessaloniki 2005

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DEM of the Vermion Mountain in Veria

DGGM

DEMs & GIS in Geological Mapping

The use of Digital Elevation Models and Geographic Information Systems in geological mapping was evaluated in a case study in the Vermino Mountain (SW Macedonia, Greece).





The use of Digital Elevation Models and Geographic Information Systems in geological mapping. A case study in the Southern Vermio Mt (Northern Greece)

Ouzounis A., Kilias, A. & Mountarkis, D.:


6th Panhellenic Geographic Conference.
Thessaloniki, 2003.

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Stalactites and stalagmites from the Alistrati cave in Serres.

D4C

Database for Caves.

In 1999 the first digital database of caves was compiled by Athanasios Ouzounis. The database is available
from the library of the Aristole University of Thessaloniki





The important caves of Greece with geologic, palaeontologic, archaeologic and general significance (in greek)


Ouzounis A.



Library & Information center of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki


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Digging for Ursus spaeleous skulls
at the cave park of Loutraki
Aridea, Pella, Greece
1999

Geology in Greece

Greece has a very complex geological history. What started out as the bottom of the Tethys Ocean during the Palaeozoic turned into a collision zone between the Euroasian and the African continent. This immense collision submerged mount Olympous, the home of the 12 gods of antiquity, from the Tethian seafloor. During these millions of years many geological formations have been created by the forces of Gaia. Gaia and Uranos (meaning sky, in greek) gave birth to the giants, the titans and the Ocean. Human mind first created myths and fairytales to explain these strange formations and supernatural phaenomena. I am here to tell you these stories, but also give you a brief scientific explanation, about all these rocks, fossils and formations one can come across the southern part of the Balkan peninsula.


Athanasios Ouzounis

- Msc Geologist
- Bsc Software engineer
- Fellow researcher at the:
Internation Hellenic University
Department of Computer Science
HUman-MAchine INteraction Laboratory


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