Tectonic control on sediment accretion and subduction off south central Chile: Implications for coseismic rupture processes of the 1960 and 2010 megathrust earthquakes

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Contreras Reyes, Eduardo ^a   Flueh, Ernst R ^b   Grevemeyer, Ingo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CENTRAL CHILE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FRACTURE ZONE; INITIAL ANGLE; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; RUPTURE AREAS; RUPTURE PROCESS; SEDIMENT LOADING; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; SOUTH AMERICA; SUBDUCTION INTERFACE; TECTONIC BOUNDARIES; TECTONIC CONTROL; TSUNAMIGENIC;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCRETION; ACCRETIONARY PRISM; COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SUBDUCTION;

CHILE; CHILOE ISLAND; LOS LAGOS; MAULE;

CHILO;

EID: 79251537769     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010TC002734     Document Type: Article

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