The 1994 Sefidabeh earthquakes in eastern Iran: Blind thrusting and bedding-plane slip on a growing anticline, and active tectonics of the Sistan suture zone

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 283-299

  Berberian, M ^a   Jackson, J A ^b   Qorashi, M ^c   Talebian, M ^c   Khatib, M ^d   Priestley, K ^b  

^a Najarian Associates   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRAN   (Iran)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRJAND   (Iran)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Bedding plane slip; Blind thrusting; Earthquakes; Eastern Iran

Indexed keywords

BEDDING PLANE; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT SLIP; TECTONICS; THRUST FAULT;

IRAN;

EID: 0033926794     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2000.00158.x     Document Type: Article

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