Lake sediments as natural seismographs: A compiled record of Late Quaternary earthquakes in Central Switzerland and its implication for Alpine deformation

Sedimentology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 319-341

  Strasser, Michael ^a   Monecke, Katrin ^b   Schnellmann, Michael ^c   Anselmetti, Flavio S ^d  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NAGRA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alpine seismotectonics; Earthquakes; Lacustrine sedimentation; Palaeoseismology; Subaquatic mass movements; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIONAL; DATA SETS; EARTHQUAKE SOURCE; EPICENTRE; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; HOLOCENES; LAKE SEDIMENTS; LATE HOLOCENE; LATE QUATERNARY; MASS MOVEMENT; NEOTECTONICS; PALAEOSEISMOLOGY; POTENTIAL SOURCES; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLOPE FAILURE; SOURCE AREA; SUB-ALPINE; SWITZERLAND; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION OF EARTHQUAKES; TIME SPAN;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LAKES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOGRAPHS; SLOPE STABILITY; STRATIGRAPHY;

EARTHQUAKES;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE CATALOGUE; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LATE GLACIAL; MASS MOVEMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSEISMICITY; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMOGRAPH; SEISMOTECTONICS;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84872800558     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sed.12003     Document Type: Article

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