Evidence of Holocene compression at Tuluá, along the western foothills of the Central Cordillera of Colombia

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 479, Issue , 2011, Pages 91-107

  López, Myriam C C ^a   Audemard, Franck A M ^b  

^a Conjunto Arboletes Casa 38 ^*  (Colombia)

^b Fundacion Venezolana de Investigaciones Sismologicas   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

COMPRESSIONAL; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; HORIZONTAL STRESS; KINEMATIC MEASUREMENTS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; SEISMIC HAZARDS; THRUST SYSTEMS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACTIVE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; KINEMATICS; PALEOSEISMICITY; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THRUST FAULT;

COLOMBIA; CORDILLERA CENTRAL [COLOMBIA];

EID: 84860391611     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2479(04)     Document Type: Article

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