The 2005 Qeshm Island earthquake (Iran) - A link between buried reverse faulting and surface folding in the Zagros Simply Folded Belt?

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 326-338

  Nissen, Edwin ^a   Ghorashi, Manoucher ^b   Jackson, James ^c   Parsons, Barry ^a   Talebian, Morteza ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRAN   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Earthquake source parameters; Faulting; Folding; InSAR; Zagros

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FOLDING; INTERFEROMETRY; REVERSE FAULT; SOURCE PARAMETERS; SURFACE STRUCTURE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST; ZAGROS;

EID: 35248877018     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03514.x     Document Type: Article

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