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plate boundary (McKenzie, 1972) passes through Macedonia,
at least some traces of this event should be expected in the
ruptural fabric of the area (e.g. specific systems of
fractures and/or differences between north and south).
From this comparison the following conclusions have been
drawn (Fig. 3)
- The same systems control the ruptural fabric of the whole
central part of the Balkan Peninsula which have been observed
in Macedonia.
- NW-SE oriented fractures are more widely developed on a
regional scale: in northern Albania they control the course
of the Crni Drim river (20), in Greece the orientation of
Pindos (21) etc.
- NE-SW oriented fractures extend also beyond the limits of
the SR of Macedonia. The zone Debar-Gostivar-Skopje extends
to Elbasan (22) in SW, to the Bujanovac-Vranje-Surdulica
graben (23) in NE, and further on to Cemernik-Dragoman-Golema
Planina (Lakatnik) (24) in Bulgaria, which is over 350 km
in length.
- The zone NidZe-Stru mica (9) widens toward SW, where faults
of this orientation can be seen from Ostrovica in Albania
(25) to Olympos (26). An interesting comparison has been
made with the map of Halkidikos (Kockel and Walther, 1971):
where regional fractures 40-70 km long were seen on
scanogram, the geological map showed faults which influenced
geological boundaries.
- Intersections of the two main systems control the fractu-
ral pattern of northern Greece, with the depressions typical
of the Pindee-Dlympos-Strimon-Dojran-Florina area.
- Being essentially of the same orientation through Balkan
Peninsula, fractures observed on the LANDSAT imagery do not
corroborate the idea of a recently active plate margin in
Macedonia.