A comparison of 103-105 year uplift rates on the South Alkyonides Fault, Central Greece: Holocene climate stability and the formation of coastal notches

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 14, 2007, Pages

  Cooper, Frances J ^a   Roberts, Gerald P ^b   Underwood, Charlie J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; HAZARDS; SEA LEVEL; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

FAULT; SEISMIC HAZARD;

TECTONICS;

COASTAL EVOLUTION; EROSION; HOLOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; POSTGLACIAL; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEISMIC HAZARD; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERRACE; UPLIFT;

CENTRAL GREECE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 34548575119     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030673     Document Type: Article

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