Geomorphic and biological indicators of paleoseismicity and Holocene uplift rate at a coastal normal fault footwall (western Corinth Gulf, Greece)

Geomorphology

Volumn 96, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 16-38

  Palyvos, N ^a   Lemeille, F ^b   Sorel, D ^c   Pantosti, D ^a   Pavlopoulos, K ^d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE IRSN   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coastal normal fault; Coastal uplift; Gulf of Corinth; Holocene shorelines; Paleoseismology; Shore platforms

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; COASTAL EVOLUTION; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FAN DELTA; FOOTWALL; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; NEOTECTONICS; NORMAL FAULT; PALEOSEISMICITY; UPLIFT;

GULF OF CORINTH; IONIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

LITHOPHAGA;

EID: 47149100574     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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