Active coastal thrusting and folding, and uplift rate of the Sahel Anticline and Zemmouri earthquake area (Tell Atlas, Algeria)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 509, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 69-80

  Maouche, Said ^a,e   Meghraoui, Mustapha ^b   Morhange, Christophe ^c   Belabbes, Samir ^b   Bouhadad, Youcef ^d   Haddoum, Hamid ^e  

^a Centre de Recherche en Astronomie Astrophysique et Geophysique   (Algeria)

^b UMR 7063   (France)

^c CEREGE   (France)

^d Centre National de Recherche Appliquee en Genie Parasismique   (Algeria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Active folding; Coastal uplift; Earthquake faulting; Hazard assessment; Marine terraces

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FOLDING; ACTIVE TECTONICS; ALGERIA; ALGIERS; COASTAL REGIONS; COASTAL UPLIFT; CONVERGENT PLATE BOUNDARIES; COSEISMIC MOVEMENT; COSEISMIC SLIPS; EPISODIC ACTIVITY; FAULT RUPTURES; FAULT-RELATED FOLD; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HOLOCENES; LATE HOLOCENE; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LATE QUATERNARY; LEVELLING SURVEY; MARINE TERRACES; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SHALLOW EARTHQUAKES; SURFACE DEFORMATION; UPLIFT RATE;

COASTAL ZONES; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TECTONICS;

LANDFORMS;

ACTIVE FAULT; ANTICLINE; CONVERGENT MARGIN; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FOLDING; HOLOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRACE; THRUST; UPLIFT;

ATLAS MOUNTAINS; MARITIME ATLAS;

EID: 79961026275     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.06.003     Document Type: Article

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