Geology study of the island of Lesvos Using Landsat data

Nikolaos Hatzopoulos

Remote sensing for mineral exploration Floyd F. Sabins )Remote Sensing Enterprises, 1724 Celeste Lane, Fullerton, CA 92833, USAReceived 13 November 1998; accepted 20 April 1999

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histogram

Pe-Piper (1980) Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 72, 387-396

Petrified forest

Ancestral form of cypress The longest petrified tree trunk – 22,5 m

The Mythimna columnar lava formations

Natural hot spring of Polichnitos the water temperature 87.6 degrees centigrade

Mines

Mine of zinc copper in North Mine of zinc copper in North Lesvos Quartz veins, which host gold and silver mineralization in North Lesvos

Polichnitos Mines

Magnesite mine

Characteristic of the area for the significant iron quantities

Conclusions

• Hard to identify geological features under vegetated areas

• Non vegetated areas features was appeared but no exactly as the geological map