Recognition of active faults and stepover geometry in Gemlik Bay, Sea of Marmara, NW Turkey

Marine Geology

Volumn 260, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 90-101

  Kuşçu, Ismail ^a   Okamura, Makoto ^b   Matsuoka, Hiromi ^b   Yamamori, Kunio ^c   Awata, Yasuo ^d   Özalp, Selim ^a  

^a GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF MINERAL RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION   (Turkey)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OYO CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

active fault; Gemlik Bay; high resolution shallow seismic study; mass movement; North Anatolian Fault; Sea of Marmara; stepover geometry

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; GEMLIK BAY; HIGH-RESOLUTION SHALLOW SEISMIC STUDY; MASS MOVEMENT; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; SEA OF MARMARA; STEPOVER GEOMETRY;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACTIVE FAULT; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; SEISMIC SURVEY; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

BURSA [TURKEY]; EURASIA; GEMLIK BAY; TURKEY;

EID: 64449085330     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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