Upper Pleistocene uplifted shorelines as tracers of (local rather than global) subduction dynamics

Journal of Geodynamics

Volumn 78, Issue , 2014, Pages 8-20

  Henry, Hadrien ^a,b   Regard, Vincent ^a,b   Pedoja, Kevin ^c,d,e   Husson, Laurent ^e   Martinod, Joseph ^a,b   Witt, Cesar ^f   Heuret, Arnauld ^g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^c NORMANDIE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d Laboratoire Morphodynamique Continentale et Cotiere   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f UNIV LILLE   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DES ANTILLES ET DE LA GUYANE   (France)

Author keywords

Geodynamics; Marine strandline; Quaternary; Shoreline; Subduction; Uplift

Indexed keywords

GEODYNAMICS; PARAMETERIZATION; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; SHORELINE CHANGE; STRANDLINE; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

EID: 84901247599     PISSN: 02643707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jog.2014.04.001     Document Type: Article

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