Steady late quaternary slip rate on the Cinarcik section of the North Anatolian fault near Istanbul, Turkey

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 4555-4559

  Kurt, Hulya ^a   Sorlien, C C ^b   Seeber, L ^c   Steckler, M S ^c   Shillington, D J ^c   Cifci, G ^d   Cormier, M H ^e,f   Dessa, J X ^g   Atgin, O ^d   Dondurur, D ^d   Demirbag, E ^a   Okay, S ^d   Imren, C ^a   Gurcay, S ^d   Carton, H ^c  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^d DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

continental transform fault displacement; Marmara Sea; North Anatolian Fault; seismic stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

CONTINENTAL TRANSFORM; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; ISTANBUL , TURKEY; MARMARA SEA; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC AGE;

FAULT SLIPS;

DEPOCENTER; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; GPS; NORTH ANATOLIAN FAULT; PLATE MOTION; QUATERNARY; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SLIP RATE; SUBSIDENCE; TRANSFORM FAULT;

ANATOLIA; CINARCIK BASIN; EURASIA; SEA OF MARMARA; TURKEY;

EID: 84883297894     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50882     Document Type: Article

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