Near-surface expression of early to late holocene displacement along the Northeastern Himalayan frontal thrust at Marbang Korong Creek, Arunachal Pradesh, India

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3060-3064

  Jayangondaperumal, R ^a   Wesnousky, Steven G ^b   Choudhuri, B K ^a  

^a WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARLY-TO-LATE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; INTENSITY DATA; MEIZOSEISMAL AREAS; NEAR-SURFACE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; EARTHQUAKES;

STRATIGRAPHY;

DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAULT SCARP; FOLDING; HOLOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

ARUNACHAL PRADESH; INDIA; MARBANG KORONG CREEK;

EID: 83255184663     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110051     Document Type: Article

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