Coseismic growth of sedimentary basins along the Yammouneh strike-slip fault (Lebanon)

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1023-1039

  Nemer, Tony ^a   Gomez, Francisco ^a   Al Haddad, Sharbel ^b   Tabet, Charles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^c National Council fro Scientific Research   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Geomorphology; Neotectonics; Palaeoseismology; Sedimentary basin processes; Seismicity and tectonics; Tectonics and landscape evolution

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; BASIN EVOLUTION; CORRELATION; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; GEODESY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; NEOTECTONICS; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; LEBANON; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 57049124467     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2008.03889.x     Document Type: Article

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