First stop was effectively a huge hole cut into the ground, comprising massive serpentinites (from dunite and harzburgite) and wehrlites, multiply deformed, and probably about 100m thick. Near the top of the outcrop, a lateritic layer and overlying Cretaceous carbonates were cut by a NW dipping fault. Absolutely impossible in the short time we had to work out exactly what was going on - but there is no question that the last movement of the sheet was under extremely cold conditions (some of the serpentinite was brecciated and then rewelded).
Crossing the Via Egnatia, between Kalamia and Lygeri, we were in for an unexpected surprise. The site itself was interesting: roughly parallel faults bounding an exatremely sheared and folded serpentinite mass, and an extremely silicified carbonate on the east side of the road. But far more interesting was the sound we heard as we stopped the car. We were greeted by a high pitched, extremely insistent crying. Dina was the first to get out, and by the time I had joined her, she had a kitten in her arms. Extremely thin, alone and absolutely terrified, there was no way any of us could leave it to die.
We only looked at a couple more nearby sites, just off the road north of Nea Nikopolis, but in that time the kitten had eaten most of Anne's sandwich (later to also be a significant portion of mine), and had drank several 100ml of water. Obviously full, it curled up and fell asleep in Dina's lap. Dina's husband was initially not best pleased when she brought him home, but apparently by the time she'd had a shower, it was again asleep, this time in his lap.
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