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The Contribution of Paleoseismology to Earthquake Hazard Evaluations
2014Paleoseismology is a relatively new method of earthquake studies at the interface betweengeology and seismology. Paleoseismic investigations have enriched the faultrupture database in some active zones (e.g., California, Turkey, and Italy) and havecontributed to a significant progress in the concept of the earthquake cycle.
Kuvvet Atakan, Mustapha Meghraoui
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Neotectonics, Seismology and Paleoseismology
2008Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the neotectonics of Argentine–Chilean Patagonia and overviews the active tectonics of the southernmost region of South America, which constitutes a field of relatively recent development on a national standard.
Perucca, Laura Patricia A. +1 more
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Science, 2002
GEOLOGY Large earthquakes often spur mass sediment movements, such as the submarine slumps that generate tsunamis. Correlating in time and space precisely dated slump deposits should thus provide a chronology of prehistoric seismicity in intraplate settings such as central Europe, where the historical record of earthquakes is spotty.
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GEOLOGY Large earthquakes often spur mass sediment movements, such as the submarine slumps that generate tsunamis. Correlating in time and space precisely dated slump deposits should thus provide a chronology of prehistoric seismicity in intraplate settings such as central Europe, where the historical record of earthquakes is spotty.
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Chapter 1 Introduction to paleoseismology
1996Publisher Summary This chapter provides an introduction to paleoseismology. Paleoseismology is the study of prehistoric earthquakes especially their location, timing, and size. Paleoseismology differs from the general studies of slow to rapid crystal movements during the late Cenozoic in its focus on the almost instantaneous deformation of landforms ...
James P. McCalpin, Alan R. Nelson
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Paleoseismology in coastal Chile
Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 1996The fossil shorelines of the Chilean coast reflect interseismic as well as coseismic movements. The earthquake record is further obscured by the variable pattern of coastal deformation that accompanies large earthquakes, such as the longitudinal warping associated with the 1960 Valdivia (Mw= 9.5) earthquake.
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Paleoseismology and Landslides
2013Most moderate to large earthquakes trigger landslides (Fig. 1). In many environments, landslides preserved in the geologic record can be analyzed to determine the likelihood of seismic triggering. If evidence indicates that a seismic origin is likely for a landslide or group of landslides, and if the landslides can be dated, then a paleoearthquake can ...
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Turbidite correlation for paleoseismology
Geological Society of America BulletinAbstract Marine turbidite paleoseismology relies on the assumption of synchronous triggering of turbidity currents by earthquake shaking to infer rupture extent and recurrence. Such inference commonly depends on age dating and correlation of the physical stratigraphy of deposits carried by turbidity currents (i.e., turbidites) across ...
Nora M. Nieminski +5 more
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Paleoseismology, Second Edition
Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, 2012Review by: Allen W. Hatheway McCalpin has spent the last 20 years, fortunately for our profession, expanding and enhancing the body of knowledge on paleoseismology. This book is McCalpin's revision of his first edited and authored compendium. The first edition of 1996 captured the admiration of the GSA (Burwell Award) and of the Association of ...
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