Slip-rate variability and distributed deformation in the Marmara Sea fault system

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 132-135

  Hergert, Tobias ^a   Heidbach, Oliver ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; ANALYTICAL METHOD; EARTHQUAKE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SLIP RATE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

EID: 76449107435     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo739     Document Type: Article

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