Style and timing of late Quaternary faulting on the Lake Edgar fault, southwest Tasmania, Australia: Implications for hazard assessment in intracratonic areas

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 479, Issue , 2011, Pages 109-131

  Clark, Dan ^a   Cupper, Matt ^b   Sandiford, Mike ^b   Kiernan, Kevin ^c  

^a Earthquake Hazard and Neotectonics Project   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; LAKES; LUMINESCENCE; TIMING CIRCUITS;

AUSTRALIAN CONTINENTS; FLUVIAL TERRACES; GEOMORPHIC ANALYSIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; SURFACE BREAKING; TASMANIA , AUSTRALIA; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS;

FAULT SLIPS;

DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SCARP; FAULTING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INTRACRATONIC BASIN; LUMINESCENCE DATING; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; QUATERNARY; RUPTURE; SEISMICITY; SLIP RATE;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 84860418358     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2479(05)     Document Type: Article

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