Active faulting and paleoseismology along the Bree fault, lower Rhine graben, Belgium

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B6, 2000, Pages 13809-13841

  Meghraoui, Mustapha ^a,d   Camelbeeck, Thierry ^b   Vanneste, Kris ^b   Brondeel, Marijke ^b   Jongmans, Denis ^c  

^a Laboratoire de Physico Chimie de l'Atmosphère   (France)

^b ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; GRABEN; NEOTECTONICS; TECTONICS;

BELGIUM; RHINE GRABEN;

EID: 0034631227     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900236     Document Type: Article

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