Using in situ Chlorine-36 cosmonuclide to recover past earthquake histories on limestone normal fault scarps: A reappraisal of methodology and interpretations

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 36-72

  Schlagenhauf, Aloé ^a   Gaudemer, Yves ^b   Benedetti, Lucilla ^c   Manighetti, Isabelle ^a   Palumbo, Luigi ^d   Schimmelpfennig, Irene ^c   Finkel, Robert ^c   Pou, Khemrak ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c CEREGE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Continental tectonics: extensional; Europe; Geomorphology; Neotectonics; Palaeoseismology

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE ISOTOPE; COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EXHUMATION; FAULT SCARP; FAULT ZONE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LIMESTONE; NEOTECTONICS; NORMAL FAULT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOSEISMICITY; PARAMETERIZATION; SYNTHETIC SEISMOGRAM;

ITALY;

EID: 77954635019     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2010.04622.x     Document Type: Article

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