Earthquake histories and holocene acceleration of fault displacement rates

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 911-914

  Nicol, Andrew ^a   Walsh, John ^b   Mouslopoulou, Vasiliki ^b,c   Villamor, Pilar ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT RATE; EARTH'S SURFACE; EARTHQUAKE PARAMETERS; EARTHQUAKE SLIP; FAULT DISPLACEMENT RATES; FAULT INTERACTIONS; GEOLOGICAL PROCESS; HOLOCENE ACCELERATION; HOLOCENES; LATE QUATERNARY; NEW ZEALAND; ON TIME; REVERSE FAULTS; TIME INTERVAL; TIME-SCALES;

EARTHQUAKES; SAMPLING;

STRAIN RATE;

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FAULT SLIP; HOLOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; PARAMETERIZATION; REVERSE FAULT; SAMPLING BIAS; STRAIN RATE; TECTONIC SETTING; TIMESCALE;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; TAUPO RIFT;

EID: 70350418868     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25765A.1     Document Type: Article

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