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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.