Evidence for a 4700-2100 BC palaeoearthquake recorded in a fluvial-archaeological sequence of the Segura River, SE Spain

Quaternary International

Volumn 242, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 106-114

  Sánchez Gómez, Mario ^a   Martínez Sánchez, Consuelo ^b   García García, Fernando ^a   Peláez, José A ^a   Pérez Valera, Fernando ^a   Martínez Andreu, Miguel ^c   Pérez Valera, Luis A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

^b ArqueoTec   (Spain)

^c Museo Arqueológico Municipal de Cartagena   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EXCAVATION; EXHUMATION; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

SPAIN;

EID: 80051790013     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.03.025     Document Type: Article

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