Elevations and ages of marine terraces and late Quaternary rock uplift in southeastern Korea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Choi, Sung Ja ^a   Merritts, Dorothy J ^b   Ota, Yoko ^c  

^a Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^b FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FAULTING; GPS; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; QUATERNARY; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TERRACE; UPLIFT;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; KOREA; SOUTH KOREA;

EID: 57649199669     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JB005260     Document Type: Article

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