Tracing woody-organic tsunami deposits of the 2011 Tohoku-oki event in Misawa (Japan) [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 With a minimum of three reported waves, the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami’s destructive force caused massive damage along the northern Japanese Aomori coast. At Misawa the coastal control area was inundated up to 550 m inland and sandy sediment remnants can be
Piero Bellanova +4 more
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The Active Faults of Eurasia Database (AFEAD): the ontology and design behind the continental-scale dataset [PDF]
Earth System Science Data, 2022 Active faults are those faults on which movement is possible in the future. This draws particular attention to active faults in geodynamic studies and seismic hazard assessment.
E. Zelenin +5 more
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Jovan Cvijic: Forefather of neotectonics [PDF]
Zbornik Radova: Geografski institut "Jovan Cvijić", 2003 Neotectonic activity as crucial factor of geomorphological evolution represents nowadays widely reckognized fact. It is generaly believed and accepted that the study of neotectonics began during first half of the 20th century by Russian scientists in the
Marković Miroslav
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Motion maps derived from optical satellite images: the case study of the East Anatolian Fault (Türkiye) [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Geology, 2023 On February 6, 2023, two earthquakes shook the southern and central Türkiye causing significant loss of human life and devastating many cities. These are related to the active East Anatolian Fault (EAF). In this study, the digital image correlation (DIC)
Marcos Eduardo Hartwig +2 more
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Landslide susceptibility mapping by using a geographic information system (GIS) along the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (Karakoram Highway), Pakistan [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2019 The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is an important route, which connects northern Pakistan with Western China. Presence of steep slopes, active faults and seismic zones, sheared rock mass, and torrential rainfall make the study area a unique geohazards ...
S. Ali +4 more
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Morphotectonics of the Padul-Nigüelas Fault Zone, southern Spain
Annals of Geophysics, 2014 The Padul-Nigüelas Fault Zone (PNFZ) is situated at the south-western mountain front of the Sierra Nevada (southern Spain) in the Internal Zone of the Betic Cordilleras and belongs to a NW-SE trending system of normal faults dipping SW.
Jochen Hürtgen +3 more
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3-D visualisation of palaeoseismic trench stratigraphy and trench logging using terrestrial remote sensing and GPR – a multiparametric interpretation [PDF]
Solid Earth, 2016 Two normal faults on the island of Crete and mainland Greece were studied to test an innovative workflow with the goal of obtaining a more objective palaeoseismic trench log, and a 3-D view of the sedimentary architecture within the trench walls ...
S. Schneiderwind +4 more
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Tectonic structure of Kerch-Taman fold zone of Azov-Kuban trough
Вестник Камчатской региональной ассоциации "Учебно-научный центр". Серия: Науки о Земле, 2021 The nrotectonic structure of the Kerch-Taman folded zone, the southern deformed part of the Azov-Kuban piedmont trough, has a number of structural features and a history of deformation development.
Гайдаленок О.В. +2 more
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Neotectonics of the Sumatran fault, Indonesia [PDF]
, 2000 The 1900-km-long, trench-parallel Sumatran fault accommodates a significant amount of the right-lateral component of oblique convergence between the Eurasian and Indian/Australian plates from 10°N to 7°S.
Natawidjaja, Danny, Sieh, Kerry
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Evidence of Quaternary tectonics along Río Grande valley, southern Malargüe fold and thrust belt, Mendoza, Argentina [PDF]
, 2019 The Malargüe fold and thrust belt is developed in the Argentinian Andes between 34° and 37° S, through the tectonic inversion of Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic depocenters of the Neuquén Basin, with an uplift history since the Cretaceous.
Colavitto, Bruno +4 more
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