Quaternary slip-rates of the Kazerun and the main recent faults: Active strike-slip partitioning in the Zagros fold-and-thrust belt

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 524-540

  Authemayou, Christine ^a,c,d   Bellier, Olivier ^a   Chardon, Dominique ^a,e   Benedetti, Lucilla ^a   Malekzade, Zaman ^b   Claude, Christelle ^a   Angeletti, Bernard ^a   Shabanian, Esmaeil ^a,b   Abbassi, Mohammad Reza ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AND SEISMOLOGY IIEES   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^e OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

Author keywords

Continental neotectonics; Continental tectonics: Strike slip and transform; Seismicity and tectonics; Tectonics and landscape evolution

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; NEOTECTONICS; PLATE CONVERGENCE; QUATERNARY; SEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; ZAGROS;

EQUISETALES;

EID: 67650236711     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04191.x     Document Type: Article

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