Dating inset terraces and offset fans along the Dehshir Fault (Iran) combining cosmogenic and OSL methods

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 185, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1147-1174

  Le Dortz, K ^a,b   Meyer, B ^a,b   Sebrier M ^a,b   Braucher, R ^c   Nazari, H ^d   Benedetti, L ^c   Fattahi, M ^e,f   Bourles D ^c   Foroutan, M ^d   Siame, L ^c   Rashidi, A ^d   Bateman, M D ^f  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^c CEREGE   (France)

^d GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRAN   (Iran)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Continental tectonics: strike slip and transform; Geomorphology; Seismicity and tectonics; Tectonics and landscape evolution

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LUMINESCENCE;

CONTINENTAL TECTONICS: STRIKE-SLIP AND TRANSFORMS; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; DENUDATION RATES; NEAR SURFACES; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; SEISMICITY AND TECTONICS; SURFACE SAMPLE; TECTONICS AND LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS;

FAULT SLIPS;

AGGRADATION; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; CHLORINE ISOTOPE; COSMIC RAY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DENUDATION; FAULT SLIP; FAULT ZONE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LUMINESCENCE DATING; SEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRACE; TRANSFORM FAULT;

IRAN;

EID: 79956021642     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2011.05010.x     Document Type: Article

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