Late Quaternary earthquake-related soft-sediment deformation along the Belgian portion of the Feldbiss Fault, Lower Rhine Graben system

Tectonophysics

Volumn 309, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 57-79

  Vanneste, K ^a   Meghraoui, M ^b   Camelbeeck, T ^a  

^a ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active fault; Liquefaction; Paleoseismology; Seismites; Trenching

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; LIQUEFACTION; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENT;

BELGIUM;

EID: 0032712391     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00132-8     Document Type: Article

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