Slip history of the Magnola fault (Apennines, Central Italy) from 36Cl surface exposure dating: Evidence for strong earthquakes over the Holocene

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 225, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 163-176

  Palumbo, Luigi ^a   Benedetti, Lucilla ^b   Bourlès, Didier ^b   Cinque, Aldo ^a   Finkel, Robert ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apennines; Chlorine 36; Cosmogenic dating; Italy; Paleoseismology; Sismotectonic

Indexed keywords

COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; FAULT SLIP; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEISMOTECTONICS;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 4344576998     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.06.012     Document Type: Article

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