Surface and subsurface palaeoseismic records at the ancient Roman city of Baelo Claudia and the Bolonia Bay area, Cádiz (south Spain)

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 316, Issue , 2009, Pages 93-121

  Silva, Pablo G ^a   Reicherter, Klaus ^b   Grützner, Christoph ^b   Bardají, Teresa ^c   Lario, Javier ^d   Goy, Jose L ^a   Zazo, Cari ^e   Becker Heidmann, Peter ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^e MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GROUND MOTION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HISTORICAL RECORD; LIQUEFACTION; PALEOSEISMICITY; PARAMETERIZATION; RETURN PERIOD; ROMAN ERA; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ANDALUCIA; CADIZ [ANDALUCIA]; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 70349167206     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP316.6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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