Holocene mass-wasting events in Lago Fagnano, Tierra del Fuego (54°S): Implications for paleoseismicity of the Magallanes-Fagnano transform fault

Basin Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 171-190

  Waldmann, Nicolas ^a,b   Anselmetti, Flavio S ^c   Ariztegui, Daniel ^a   Austin, James A ^d   Pirouz, Mortaza ^a   Moy, Christopher M ^e   Dunbar, Robert ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; MASS WASTING; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMOTECTONICS; TRANSFORM FAULT; VERTICAL SEISMIC PROFILE;

FAGNANO LAKE; ISLA GRANDE DE TIERRA DEL FUEGO; TIERRA DEL FUEGO [(ARC) SOUTH AMERICA];

EID: 79952094046     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2010.00489.x     Document Type: Article

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