A complex seismogenic shear zone: The Düzce segment of North Anatolian Fault (Turkey)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 262, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 185-203

  Pucci, S ^a,b   Pantosti, D ^a   Barchi, M R ^b   Palyvos, N ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

1999 D zce earthquake; coseismic ruptures; dislocation model; releasing fault junction; slip distribution; tectonic geomorphology

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC FAULT TRACE; COSEISMIC RUPTURES; RELEASING FAULT JUNCTION; SLIP DISTRIBUTION;

EARTHQUAKES; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; TECTONICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

SEISMOLOGY;

ACTIVE FAULT; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISLOCATION; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT PROPAGATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; KOCAELI EARTHQUAKE 1999; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

DUZCE; EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 34548822150     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.038     Document Type: Article

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