The Yenice-Gönen active fault (NW Turkey): Active tectonics and palaeoseismology

Tectonophysics

Volumn 453, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 263-275

  Kürçer, Akin ^a   Chatzipetros, Alexandros ^b   Tutkun, Salih Zeki ^a   Pavlides, Spyros ^b   Ateş, Özkan ^a   Valkaniotis, Sotiris ^b  

^a ÇANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Earthquake recurrence interval; North Anatolian Fault; Palaeoseismology; Yenice G nen Earthquake; Yenice G nen Fault

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; GPS; LIQUEFACTION; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLIP RATE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

BALIKESIR [TURKEY]; BIGA PENINSULA; EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 44649155615     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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