Active faulting and neotectonics in the Baelo Claudia area, Campo de Gibraltar (southern Spain)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 554-557, Issue , 2012, Pages 127-142

  Grützner, Christoph ^a   Reicherter, Klaus ^a   Hübscher, Christian ^b   Silva, Pablo G ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Earthquake; Neotectonics; Paleoseismicity; Paleostress; Southern Spain; Trenching

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULTING; COMPLEX PATTERN; CONVERGENCE ZONES; DEFORMATION HISTORY; EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY; EARTHQUAKE DESTRUCTION; EARTHQUAKE EVENTS; GEOELECTRICAL; GIBRALTARS; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOCAL SOURCE; NEOTECTONICS; NORMAL FAULTS; OFF-SHORE; PALEO-STRESS; PALEOSEISMIC EVIDENCE; PALEOSEISMICITY; RESISTIVITY MEASUREMENT; RETURN PERIODS; SEISMIC INVESTIGATIONS; SOUTHERN SPAIN; STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR; STRUCTURAL DATA; STUDY AREAS;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; TRENCHING;

FAULTING;

ACTIVE FAULT; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; FAULTING; FOLDING; GEOELECTRIC FIELD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; NEOTECTONICS; NORMAL FAULT; PALEOSTRESS; SEISMICITY; SEISMOLOGY; THRUST; TRENCH;

STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR;

EID: 84863784378     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.05.025     Document Type: Article

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