Paleostress analysis of Cenozoic faulting in the Kraishte area, SW Bulgaria

►Our work presents the first paleostress analysis of fault-slip data from the Kraishte area, SW Bulgaria. ► We can clearly distinguish three successive faulting events during Cenozoic extension. ► Middle Eocene-early Oligocene WSW-ENE extension led to the exhumation of an extensional core complex. ► Between 32 and 29 Ma, SW-NE-oriented syn-magmatic extension followed. ► The late Oligocene to the earliest Miocene was characterized by SSE-NNW transtension.