Recurrence pattern of Holocene earthquakes along the Dead Sea transform revealed by varve-counting and radiocarbon dating of lacustrine sediments

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 222, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 301-314

  Migowski, Claudia ^a   Agnon, Amotz ^b   Bookman, Revital ^b,c   Negendank, Jörg F W ^a   Stein, Mordechai ^b,c  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Active faulting; Anatolian block; Dead Sea Transform; Earthquakes; Holocene sediments; Lateral extrusion; Paleoseismology; Recurrence interval; Seismite; Varves

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMICITY; TRANSFORM FAULT; VARVE;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 2342646961     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.02.015     Document Type: Article

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