Upper plate deformation and seismic barrier in front of Nazca subduction zone: The Chololo Fault System and active tectonics along the Coastal Cordillera, southern Peru

Tectonophysics

Volumn 459, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 174-185

  Audin, Laurence ^a   Lacan, Pierre ^b   Tavera, Hernando ^c   Bondoux, Francis ^a  

^a Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^c INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

Active tectonics; Geomorphology; Peru; Seismicity; Subduction zones

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT ZONE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMICITY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

ICA; NAZCA; PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 54249154559     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.11.070     Document Type: Article

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