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6.1 Vasiliko Catchment (Terraces Looking W across valley (F1 (Highest…

- - - - --> conglomeratic lenses w chalk clasts (Pakhna/Lefkhara)
  - - - ∴ Change to coarser
    - - more preservation potential since more marine sediment
      - (less terrestrial sediment --> bypasses shelf/slope)
- - - - Pliocene = quiet
      - Miocene tectonics
    - - Most sediment bypassed into deep sea rather than reside on margin
- - - - Brown soils - Broad green recent floodplain
      - Modern channel
        
        = shallow depression
        
        mostly inactive
    - - Terra Rossa (Pliocene beneath)
    - - Vasilikos quarry conglomerates
      - Topog higher & older vs other units
      - Quarry higher than modern river
- - - - Entire F1 thickness preserved
      - More massive
    - - F1 Herringboned crossbeds - SE palaeoflow
      - Represent traction currents / debris flows in F1 depo
    - - Clasts: diabase, gabbro, chalk, chert
      - Gabbroic input not seen in Mesaoria
- - - - Terra Rossa - red soil
      - Brownish layers - cemented w caliche
    - - Caliche - semi arid
        
        Winter - Dissolved carbonate when saturated
        
        Summer - evap draws gwater up & precips crust below surface
        
        (wet-dry alternation)
      - Red silt
        
        Weathered fluvial silt
    - - Interglacials
      - Loess --> Strong winds & physical erosion dominates
    - - Likely from channel side/overbank deposits