Paleoseismological evidence of recent earthquakes on the 1967 Mudurnu Valley earthquake segment of the North Anatolian fault zone

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1646-1661

  Palyvos, Nikolaos ^a,b   Pantosti, Daniela ^a   Zabci, Cengiz ^c   D'Addezio, Giuliana ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^c ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HISTORY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

FAULT ZONE; PALEOSEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; PALEOSEISMICITY;

BOLU [TURKEY]; EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 35548986560     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060049     Document Type: Article

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