Orthogneiss from the Rhodope massive in Xanthi.
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
The web like ornamentation of this marble gave this distinct marble its name.
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.
Hot springs are present in the Rhodope Mountains as a result of remnant magmatism
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
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).
The sacred places of the ancient Thracians carved into the pyroclastic rocks
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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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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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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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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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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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
