Quantifying the slip rates, spatial distribution and evolution of active normal faults from geomorphic analysis: Field examples from an oblique-extensional graben, southern Turkey

Geomorphology

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 299-316

  Boulton, Sarah J ^a   Whittaker, Alexander C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drainage patterns; Eastern Mediterranean; Fault evolution; Long profile; Neotectonics; Seismic hazard; Tectonic geomorphology

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; BEDROCK; DRAINAGE NETWORK; GEOMORPHOLOGY; NEOTECTONICS; NORMAL FAULT; PLEISTOCENE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SLIP RATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

EURASIA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA (EAST); TURKEY;

EID: 58249109512     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.09.007     Document Type: Article

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