Paleoseismological data from a new trench across the El Camp Fault (Catalan Coastal Ranges, NE Iberian Peninsula)

Annals of Geophysics

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 763-774

  Perea, Hector ^a   Figueiredo, Paula M ^b,c   Carner, Jesús ^a   Gambini, Stefano ^d   Boydell, Kirsty ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e Department of Civil/Environ Eng ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catalan Coastal Ranges; El Camp Fault; Normal fault; Paleoseismicity; Trenching

Indexed keywords

NORMAL FAULT; PALEOSEISMICITY; SLIP RATE;

CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 2042527665     PISSN: 15935213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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