Dating large infrequent earthquakes by damaged cave deposits

Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 261-264

  Kagan, Elisa J ^a,b   Agnon, Amotz ^a   Bar Matthews, Miryam ^b   Ayalon, Avner ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dead Sea transform; Earthquakes; Paleoseismicity; Speleothems; U Th dating; Wiggle matching

Indexed keywords

CAVE DEPOSITS; EARTHQUAKE PHYSICS; HAZARD ASSESSMENTS; POSTSEISMIC PRECIPITATES;

CAVES; CONSTRAINT THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; DEPOSITS; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; HAZARDS; OXYGEN;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CAVE DEPOSIT; DATING METHOD; EARTHQUAKE; PALEOSEISMICITY; SPELEOTHEM; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ASIA; DEAD SEA RIFT; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

EID: 17144411539     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G21193.1     Document Type: Article

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