Morphology, displacement, and slip rates along the North Anatolian Fault, Turkey

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 107, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Hubert Ferrari, Aurélia ^a,b   Armijo, Rolando ^a   King, Geoffrey ^a   Meyer, Bertrand ^a   Barka, Aykut ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

North Anatolian Fault; Slip rate; Strain localization; Total offset

Indexed keywords

FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FAULT SLIP; GEOMORPHOLOGY; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; SEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TIMESCALE;

TURKEY;

EID: 0037058203     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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