Earthquakes and civilizations of the Indus Valley: A challenge for archaeoseismology

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 471, Issue , 2010, Pages 119-127

  Kovach, Robert L ^a   Grijalva, Kelly ^b   Nur, Amos ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

ALLUVIAL PLAINS; ARABIAN PLATES; EURASIAN PLATES; INDUS RIVER; KACHCHH; PAKISTAN; REGIONAL TECTONICS; RIPARIAN ENVIRONMENTS;

RIVERS;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CIVILIZATION; EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EURASIAN PLATE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; INDIAN PLATE; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMIC HAZARD;

INDUS BASIN; INDUS DELTA; PAKISTAN; SIND;

EID: 78651259937     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2471(11)     Document Type: Article

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