A Late Pleistocene-Holocene natural seismograph along the Boconó Fault (Mérida Andes, Venezuela): The moraine-dammed Los Zerpa paleo-lake

Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-17

  Carrillo, Eduardo ^a,c   Audemard M , Franck A ^b   Beck, Christian ^c   Cousin, Michel ^c   Jouanne, François ^c   Cano, Victor ^b   Castilla, Raymi ^b   Melo, Luis ^b   Villemin, Thierry ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL DE VENEZUELA   (Venezuela)

^b Fundacion Venezolana de Investigaciones Sismologicas   (Venezuela)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

Andes; Glacial and peri glacial sedimentary facies; M rida Glaciation; Paleoseismicity; Soft sediment deformation; Venezuela

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; PLEISTOCENE;

EID: 33244489172     PISSN: 00379409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/177.1.3     Document Type: Article

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