Plateau 'pop-up' in the great 1897 Assam earthquake

Nature

Volumn 410, Issue 6830, 2001, Pages 806-809

  Bilham, Roger ^a,b   England, Philip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; SEISMOLOGY; STRESS ANALYSIS; TECTONICS;

THRUST FAULTS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT PROPAGATION; PLATEAU; REVERSE FAULT; THRUST FAULT;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BHUTAN; EARTHQUAKE; GEOLOGY; GEOMETRY; INDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VELOCITY;

INDIA;

EID: 0035848832     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35071057     Document Type: Article

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