Structural and seismological segmentation of the Gulf of Corinth fault system: Implications for models of fault growth

Annali di Geofisica

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 619-646

  Roberts, Gerald P ^a   Koukouvelas, Ioannis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Characteristic earthquakes; Fault slip data; Segmentation; Surface ruptures

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001687239     PISSN: 03652556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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