Archaeological sites (Tell and Road) offset by the Dead Sea Fault in the Amik Basin, Southern Turkey

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 179, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1313-1329

  Altunel, Erhan ^a   Meghraoui, Mustapha ^b   Karabacak, Volkan ^a   Akyüz, Serdar H ^c   Ferry, Matthieu ^b   Yalçiner, Çaĝlar ^a,b   Munschy, Marc ^b  

^a ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UMR 7063   (France)

^c ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Continental tectonics: strike slip and transform; Geomorphology; Neotectonics; Palaeoseismology; Seismicity and tectonics; Transform faults

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; EARTHQUAKE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; HOLOCENE; NEOTECTONICS; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONICS; TRANSFORM FAULT; TRENCH;

EURASIA; TURKEY;

EID: 70450199746     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2009.04388.x     Document Type: Article

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