Quaternary reactivation of tertiary faults in the southeastern Korean Peninsula: Age constraint by optically stimulated luminescence dating

Island Arc

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-12

  Ree, Jin Han ^a   Lee, Young Joon ^a   Rhodes, Ed J ^b   Park, Youngdo ^a   Kwon, Sung Tack ^c   Chwae, Ueechan ^d   Jeon, Jeong Soo ^d   Lee, Bongjoo ^d  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^d Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Optically stimulated luminescence dating; Quaternary faults; Reactivation; Southeastern Korean Peninsula; Stress regime

Indexed keywords

LUMINESCENCE DATING; NEOTECTONICS; QUATERNARY; REACTIVATION; STRESS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

KOREA;

EID: 0037339256     PISSN: 10384871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1738.2003.00372.x     Document Type: Article

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