Fault slip-rate variations during crustal-scale strain localisation, central Italy

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2002, Pages

  Roberts, Gerald P ^a   Michetti, Alessandro M ^b   Cowie, Patience ^c   Morewood, Nigel C ^d   Papanikolaou, Ioannis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; POPULATION STATISTICS; TECTONICS;

FAULT INTERACTIONS; FAULT-SLIP RATES; LATEST PLEISTOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARIES; SEISMIC HAZARDS; STRAIN LOCALISATION; SURFACE FAULTING; VERTICAL COMPONENT;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 0037092381     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL013529     Document Type: Article

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