A new opportunity to detect paleo-earthquake events dating back to the past 10 millennia: A record from lacustrine sediment

Engineering Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 177-188

  Kawakami, Shin Ichi ^a   Fukusawa, Hitoshi ^b   Kanaori, Yuji ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; LAKES; MASS TRANSFER; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY;

DENSITY PROFILES; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENT; PALEO EARTHQUAKE; SPIKES; TURBIDITES;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

DEPOSITIONAL EVENT; EARTHQUAKE; GRAIN DENSITY; LAKE SEDIMENT; PALAEOSEISMICITY; TURBIDITE;

JAPAN;

EID: 0030235907     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-7952(96)00059-2     Document Type: Article

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