A Neogene giant landslide in Tarapacá, northern Chile: A signal of instability of the westernmost Altiplano and palaeoseismicity effects

Geomorphology

Volumn 102, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 532-541

  Pinto, L ^a   Herail G ^a,b   Sepulveda S A ^a   Krop, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Altiplano; Earthquake; Hazard; Landslide; Palaeoseismicity

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSLIDE; NEOGENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMIC HAZARD; THRUST FAULT;

ALTIPLANO; CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA; TARAPACA;

EID: 55249105698     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.05.044     Document Type: Article

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