Holocene earthquake record offshore Portugal (SW Iberia): testing turbidite paleoseismology in a slow-convergence margin

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1156-1172

  Gràcia, Eulàlia ^a   Vizcaino, Alexis ^a   Escutia, Carlota ^b   Asioli, Alessandra ^c   Rodés, Ángel ^d   Pallàs, Raimon ^d   Garcia Orellana, Jordi ^e   Lebreiro, Susana ^f   Goldfinger, Chris ^g  

^a CSIC Unidad de Tecnologia Marina UTM   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f INETI   (Portugal)

^g OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABYSSAL PLAINS; CLIMATIC EVENTS; COMPLEMENTARY TOOLS; CONVERGENCE MARGIN; CONVERGENCE RATES; CONVERGENT MARGIN; DEEP SEA BASINS; DEFORMATION ZONE; EARTHQUAKE EVENTS; GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES; GRAVITY CORE; GREAT EARTHQUAKE; GULF OF CADIZ; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; HOLOCENE EARTHQUAKES; HOLOCENES; IBERIAN PENINSULA; NORTH AFRICA; PALEOSEISMOLOGY; PORTUGAL; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; SEDIMENT CORE; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SEISMIC EVENT; SEISMOGENIC STRUCTURES; TRIGGERING MECHANISM; TSUNAMI HAZARDS; WESTERN EUROPE;

CESIUM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

DEEP SEA; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HOLOCENE; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; PALEOSEISMICITY; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; SEA LEVEL; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMOGRAM; TSUNAMI; TURBIDITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF CADIZ; IBERIAN PENINSULA;

EID: 77950629573     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.01.010     Document Type: Article

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