Late Weichselian and Holocene earthquake events along the Geleen fault in NE Belgium: OSL age constraints

Quaternary International

Volumn 199, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 56-74

  Vandenberghe, Dimitri ^a   Vanneste, Kris ^b   Verbeeck, Koen ^b   Paulissen, Etienne ^c   Buylaert, Jan Pieter ^a   De Corte, Frans ^d   Van den haute, Peter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b ROYAL OBSERVATORY OF BELGIUM   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FAULT ZONE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; LUMINESCENCE DATING; TRENCH; WEICHSELIAN;

EID: 64249139376     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.11.017     Document Type: Article

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