Motion on the Kaparelli fault (Greece) prior to the 1981 earthquake sequence determined from 36Cl cosmogenic dating

Terra Nova

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 118-124

  Benedetti, L ^a   Finkel, R ^a   King, G ^b   Armijo, R ^b   Papanastassiou, D ^c   Ryerson, F J ^a   Flerit, F ^b   Farber, D ^a   Stavrakakis, G ^c  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

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

^c NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; DATING METHOD; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SCARP; FAULT SLIP; LIMESTONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

GREECE;

EID: 0037995518     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.2003.00474.x     Document Type: Article

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