Lake sediments as late Quaternary paleoseismic archives: Examples in the northwestern Alps and clues for earthquake-origin assessment of sedimentary disturbances

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 479, Issue , 2011, Pages 159-179

  Beck, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKES; POSITIVE IONS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TEXTURES; TIME SERIES;

HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; HISTORICAL SEISMICITY; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LATE QUATERNARY; MICROFRACTURING; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; SEISMOTECTONIC ENVIRONMENTS; SEISMOTECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; PALEOSEISMICITY; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLOPE FAILURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALPS;

EID: 84860411301     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2479(07)     Document Type: Article

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