The use of varved clay chronology for dating paleoseismic events: The Erstavik record in the Stockholm area, south Sweden

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 130, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 167-181

  Tröften, Per Einar ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clay; Deglaciation; Earthquakes; Paleoseismic events; Sweden; Varved clay chronology

Indexed keywords

DEGLACIATION; EARTHQUAKE; HOLOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; VARVE;

SWEDEN;

EID: 0342905113     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(99)00109-8     Document Type: Article

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