Multiple-trench investigations across the newly ruptured segment of the El Pilar fault in northeastern Venezuela after the 1997 Cariaco earthquake

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 479, Issue , 2011, Pages 133-157

  Franck, A ^a   Audemard, M ^a  

^a Fundacion Venezolana de Investigaciones Sismologicas   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; LAKES;

COLLUVIAL DEPOSITS; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SECTIONS; POP-UP STRUCTURES; PRECISE DETERMINATIONS; SURFACE RUPTURES; TIME SPAN; VENEZUELA;

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SCARP; FAULT ZONE; OUTCROP; PALEOSEISMICITY; TERRACE; TRENCH;

VENEZUELA;

PARIA; TERRANOVA;

EID: 84860420396     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.2479(06)     Document Type: Article

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