Well, here I am, sipping Mythos in our air-conditioned cocoon above the baking-hot streets of Grevena. Can you blame me, when it's 42 degrees C outside, and still rising? Annie decided that today would be a good day to catch up with writing, and to prepare for field work over the next week. We're going to look at a lot more ophiolitic blobs, I think. I've been putting my GPS info and the IGME geological maps into GoogleEarth, and all of these blobs are still more than a little bit strange, given that they continue with sporadic but predictable appearances (between the Triassic-Jurassic and Cretaceous carbonates) all the way to the Vardar and beyond. A continuous ophiolitic sheet (over 300km in width) is thought to be pretty much impossible, as there doesn't appear to be a way to transport such a large sheet without major imbrication. In addition, the sediments we saw the other day indicate that the Mesohellenic Ophiolite probably didn't even continue as far as Argilon, let alone the Vardar Zone (unless there's been a huge amount of erosion, of course).
Ah well, no way of solving these problems until we do more fieldwork, so I'm not going to worry about it too much!!
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