Holocene slip-rate on the Sabzevar thrust fault, NE Iran, determined using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 245, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 673-684

  Fattahi, Morteza ^a,b   Walker, Richard ^b   Hollingsworth, James ^c   Bahroudi, Abbas ^d   Nazari, Hamid ^d   Talebian, Morteza ^d   Armitage, Simon ^b   Stokes, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

earthquake; fault slip rate; Iran; luminescence dating; seismic hazard

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIP-RATES; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; SABZEVAR THRUST FAULT; SEISMIC HAZARD; SINGLE ALIQUOT REGENERATIVE-DOSE (SAR) PROTOCOL;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE; SEDIMENTS;

SEISMOLOGY;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; EARTHQUAKE; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; SLIP RATE; THRUST FAULT;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 33646692276     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.03.027     Document Type: Article

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