Sedimentary record of late Holocene seismicity and uplift of Hersek restraining bend along the North Anatolian Fault in the Gulf of İzmit

Tectonophysics

Volumn 487, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 33-45

  Özaksoy, Volkan ^a,b   Emre, Ömer ^a   Yildirim, Cengiz ^a,c   Doǧan, Ahmet ^a,d   Özalp, Selim ^a   Tokay, Fatma ^a  

^a GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF MINERAL RESEARCH AND EXPLORATION   (Turkey)

^b AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d Iller Bankasi   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coastal terraces; Hersek Peninsula; Marmara Sea; Palaeoseismology; Sedimentology; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

EASTERN MARMARA; HERSEK PENINSULA; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; HOLOCENES; LATE HOLOCENE; MARMARA SEA; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; PALAEOSEISMOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATES; RADIOCARBON DATING; RUPTURE PROPAGATION; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBSEGMENTS; TECTONIC UPLIFT; UPLIFT RATE;

EARTHQUAKES; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL CONSERVATION; TSUNAMIS;

LANDFORMS;

FAULT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HOLOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; RUPTURE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS; TERRACE; THRUST; TRANSPRESSION; TSUNAMI; UPLIFT;

ANATOLIA; GULF OF IZMIT; SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

EID: 77952582590     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.03.006     Document Type: Article

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