Identifying past earthquakes on an active normal fault (Magnola, Italy) from the chemical analysis of its exhumed carbonate fault plane

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 271, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 145-158

  Carcaillet, Julien ^a   Manighetti, Isabelle ^a   Chauvel, Catherine ^a   Schlagenhauf, Aloé ^a   Nicole, Jean Marc ^a  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE GRENOBLE   (France)

Author keywords

Apennines; carbonate weathering; fault scarp rocks; major and trace elements; normal fault; paleoseismology; past earthquake history

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL ITALY; CHEMICAL CONTENT; DIFFERENTIAL WEATHERING; FAULT PLANES; FAULT SCARP; HOLOCENE; IN-SITU; NORMAL FAULTS; RUPTURE ZONES;

ALUMINUM; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EARTHQUAKES; HISTORY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHERING;

SEISMOLOGY;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SCARP; HOLOCENE; LEACHING; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMIC QUIESCENCE; SLIP RATE; TECTONIC SETTING; TRACE ELEMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 45449083425     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.059     Document Type: Article

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