Late Pleistocene-early Holocene paleoseismicity deduced from lake sediment deformation and coeval landsliding in the Calchaquíes valleys, NW Argentina

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 479, Issue , 2011, Pages 181-194

  Hermanns, Reginald L ^a   Niedermann, Samuel ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; LANDSLIDES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SEDIMENTS;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; LANDSLIDE DEPOSITS; LATE PLEISTOCENE; ORGANIC MATERIALS; PALEOSEISMICITY; REVERSE FAULTS; STRONG EARTHQUAKES; SURFACE EXPOSURE AGE;

LAKES;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; FAULTING; FOLD; FOLDING; FOOTWALL; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LANDSLIDE; PALEOSEISMICITY; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; REVERSE FAULT; ROCK AVALANCHE; SEISMITE;

ARGENTINA; CALCHAQUI VALLEYS;

EID: 84860395678     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2479(08)     Document Type: Article

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