Building an 18 000-year-long paleo-earthquake record from detailed deep-sea turbidite characterisation in Poverty Bay, New Zealand

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2077-2101

  Pouderoux, H ^a,b   Lamarche, G ^b   Proust, J N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; EARTHQUAKE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; PALEOSEISMICITY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SLOPE FAILURE; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY; TURBIDITE;

GISBORNE; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; POVERTY BAY;

EID: 84863689984     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-12-2077-2012     Document Type: Article

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