Geological slip rates along the North Anatolian Fault in the Marmara region

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Gasperini, Luca ^a   Polonia, Alina ^a   Çaǧatay, M Namik ^b   Bortoluzzi, Giovanni ^a   Ferrante, Valentina ^a  

^a ISMAR CNR   (Italy)

^b ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEODESY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA LEVEL;

AEGEAN SEA; FAULT INTERACTIONS; FAULT STRANDS; GEODETIC DATA; GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; PLATE MOTIONS; PLATE-TECTONIC MODELS; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SLIP RATES; TIME-SCALES;

TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION; EURASIAN PLATE; GEODESY; NEOTECTONICS; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; PLATE MOTION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SLIP RATE;

AEGEAN SEA; GULF OF GEMLIK; GULF OF IZMIT; GULF OF SAROS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

EID: 80455155224     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC002906     Document Type: Article

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