Recent seismogenic fault activity in a Late Quaternary closed-lake graben basin (Albacete, SE Spain)

Geomorphology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 169-178

  Rodriguez Pascua M A ^a   Perez Lopez R ^a   Calvo, J P ^a   Garcia del Cura M A ^b  

^a INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Active fault; Diffusion equation; Graben basin; Holocene; Paleoearthquake; SE Spain

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; ALLUVIAL PLAIN; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SCARP; FAULTING; GRABEN; HOLOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; QUATERNARY;

EID: 53749083293     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.06.023     Document Type: Article

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