Geological criteria for evaluating seismicity revisited : forty years of paleoseismic investigations and the natural record of past earthquakes / edited by Franck A. Audemard M., Alessandro Maria Michetti, James P. McCalpin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Audemard M., Franck A.

Michetti, Alessandro M.

McCalpin, James.

Geological Society of America.

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 479.

Special paper ; 479

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleoseismology--Methodology.

Paleoseismology.

Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 204 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2011.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Seismologists, other geologists, and a number of other specialists summarize the current understanding of using natural markers to identify prehistoric earthquakes and provide information on their date, strength, and other features. Such insights could be used to assess the risk of future earthquakes in a particular area. The topics include large-magnitude late Holocene seismic activity in the Pereira-Armenia region of Colombia, multiple-trench investigations across the newly ruptured segment of the El Pilar fault in northeastern Venezuela after the 1997 Cariaco earthquake, and a model-based approach to estimating rupture length and paleomagnitude from point measurements of displacement. There is no index. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Paleoseismicity of a low-slip-rate normal fault in the Rio Grande rift, USA: the Calabacillas fault, Albuquerque, New Mexico / J.P. McCalpin [and others]

Late Quaternary earthquakes on the Hubbell Spring fault system, New Mexico, USA: evidence for noncharacteristic ruptures of intrabasin faults in the Rio Grande rift / Susan S. Olig [and others]

Large-magnitude late Holocene seismic activity in the Pereira-Armenia region, Colombia / Claudia Patricia Lalinde P ..., [and others]

Evidence of Holocene compression at Tuluá, along the western foothills of the Central Cordillera of Colombia / Myriam C. López C. and Franck A. Audemard M.

Style and timing of late Quaternary faulting on the Lake Edgar fault, southwest Tasmania, Australia: implications for hazard assessment in intracratonic areas / Dan Clark ..., [and others]

Multiple-trench investigations across the newly ruptured segment of the El Pilar fault in northeastern Venezuela after the 1997 Cariaco earthquake / Franck A. Audemard M.

Lake sediments as late Quaternary paleoseismic archives: examples in the northwestern Alps and clues for earthquake-origin assessment of sedimentary disturbances / Christian Beck

Late Pleistocene-early Holocene paleoseismicity deduced from lake sediment deformation and coeval landsliding in the Calchaquíes valleys, NW Argentina / Reginald L. Hermanns and Samuel Niedermann

Rupture length and paleomagnitude estimates from point measurements of displacement

a model-based approach / Glenn Biasi, Ray J. Weldon II, and Kate Scharer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Geological criteria for evaluating seismicity revisited.

OCLC:

752168053

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