Comment on: 'A late Pleistocene clockwise rotation phase of Zakynthos (Greece) and implications for the evolution of the western Aegean Arc'

Abstract

In a recent paper, Duermeijer et al. [1] report new palaeomagnetic results from the island of Zakynthos (Greece). In many cases, these authors have re-sampled the original sites of Laj et al. [2] and the results are virtually identical to those of the earlier study except for much more precise biostratigraphic age control. Three middle Pleistocene sites (Bochali, Zakynthos town and Porto Roma) which were not sampled by Laj et al. document signi¢cant clockwise rotations. From the results obtained from these three new sites, the authors conclude that the 25° clockwise rotation of Zakynthos described by Laj et al. as affecting the entire western Hellenic margin more or less progressively over the last 5 Myr is much more recent (early Pleistocene).