Geohazards rooted from the northern margin of the Sea of Marmara since the late Pleistocene: A review of recent results

Natural Hazards

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 583-603

  Görür, Naci ^a   Çaǧatay, M Namik ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Geohazard; Hypoxia; Sea of Marmara; Submarine landslide; Tsunami

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT ZONE; GEODYNAMICS; GEOLOGICAL HAZARD; HYPOXIA; KOCAELI EARTHQUAKE 1999; LITHOLOGY; MASS WASTING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLEISTOCENE; SEAFLOOR; SHELF BREAK; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; TSUNAMI;

BLACK SEA; CINARCIK BASIN; SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

EID: 77955775320     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-009-9469-x     Document Type: Review

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