Late Holocene great earthquakes in the eastern part of the Aleutian megathrust

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 84, Issue , 2014, Pages 86-97

  Shennan, Ian ^a   Bruhn, Ronald ^b   Barlow, Natasha ^a   Good, Kelly ^b   Hocking, Emma ^a,c  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alaska; Paleoseismology; Quaternary; Sea level

Indexed keywords

SEA LEVEL; SUBSIDENCE;

ALASKA; MEGATHRUST EARTHQUAKES; MULTIPLE EARTHQUAKE CYCLES; PALEOSEISMOLOGY; PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND; QUATERNARY; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL;

EARTHQUAKES;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; HOLOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEA LEVEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SUBSIDENCE; THRUST; UPLIFT;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890222293     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.11.010     Document Type: Article

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