Paleoseismic evidence of a surface rupture along the northwestern Himalayan Frontal Thrust (HFT)

Geomorphology

Volumn 180-181, Issue , 2013, Pages 47-56

  Kumahara, Yasuhiro ^a   Jayangondaperumal, R ^b  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WADIA INSTITUTE OF HIMALAYAN GEOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Active fault; Himalayan Frontal Thrust (HFT); Paleoseismology; Trench survey

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; ANTICLINE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; HISTORICAL RECORD; PALEOSEISMICITY; THRUST; TRENCH;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA;

NASO HEXACANTHUS;

EID: 84870255028     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.09.004     Document Type: Article

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