Continental Transform Boundaries: Tectonic Evolution and Geohazards
| Autor: | Michael Steckler, Christopher Sorlien, Pierre Henry, M. Namik Çağatay, Leonardo Seeber, Cecilia M.G. Mc, Gülsen Uçarkuş |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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| Zdroj: | Scientific Drilling, Iss 13, Pp 61-64 (2012) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1816-8957 1816-3459 |
| DOI: | 10.2204/iodp.sd.13.11.2011 |
| Popis: | Continental transform boundaries cross heavily populated regions, and they are associated with destructive earthquakes,for example, the North Anatolian Fault (NAF)across Turkey, the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault in Haiti,the San Andreas Fault in California, and the El Pilar fault in Venezuela. Transform basins are important because they are typically associated with 3-D fault geometries controlling segmentation—thus, the size and timing of damaging earthquakes—and because sediments record both deformation and earthquakes. Even though transform basins have been extensively studied, their evolution remains controversial because we don’t understand the specifics about coupling of vertical and horizontal motions and about the basins’long-term kinematics. Seismic and tsunami hazard assessments require knowing architecture and kinematics of faultsas well as how the faults are segmented. |
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