Thin-section analysis as a tool to aid identification of palaeoearthquakes on the "slow", active Geleen Fault, Roer Valley Graben

Tectonophysics

Volumn 453, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 94-109

  Vanneste, Kris ^a   Mees, Florias ^b   Verbeeck, Koen ^a  

^a ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Active fault; Colluvial wedge; Event horizon; Micromorphology; Palaeoseismology

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; FOOTWALL; GRABEN; MICROMORPHOLOGY; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; SLIP RATE; SOIL PROFILE; THIN SECTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MEUSE RIVER; RUR VALLEY GRABEN; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 44649188447     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.10.011     Document Type: Article

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