Late Quaternary lacustrine paleo-seismic archives in north-western Alps: Examples of earthquake-origin assessment of sedimentary disturbances

C Beck - Earth-Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
The late Quaternary sedimentary fills of several lakes of the north-western Alps are revealed
to be possible paleo-seismological “archives” in a moderately active seismo-tectonic region …

Lithology of the long sediment record recovered by the ICDP Dead Sea Deep Drilling Project (DSDDP)

I Neugebauer, A Brauer, MJ Schwab… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
The sedimentary sections that were deposited from the Holocene Dead Sea and its
Pleistocene precursors are excellent archives of the climatic, environmental and seismic …

Soft-sediment deformation structures interpreted as seismites in lacustrine sediments of the Prebetic Zone, SE Spain, and their potential use as indicators of …

MA Rodrı́guez-Pascua, JP Calvo, G De Vicente… - Sedimentary …, 2000 - Elsevier
Lacustrine formations of Late Miocene age in the Prebetic area, SE Spain, show several
types of deformational structures that are interpreted as seismites. They are present in both …

Lake levels and sequence stratigraphy of Lake Lisan, the late Pleistocene precursor of the Dead Sea

Y Bartov, M Stein, Y Enzel, A Agnon… - Quaternary …, 2002 - cambridge.org
Lake Lisan, the late Pleistocene precursor of the Dead Sea, existed from∼ 70,000 to 15,000
yr BP It evolved through frequent water-level fluctuations, which reflected the regional …

Long‐term earthquake clustering: A 50,000‐year paleoseismic record in the Dead Sea Graben

S Marco, M Stein, A Agnon… - Journal of Geophysical …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
The temporal distribution of earthquakes in the Dead Sea Graben is studied through a
50,000‐year paleoseismic record recovered in laminated sediments of the Late Pleistocene …

The recognition of reactivation during continental deformation

RE Holdsworth, CA Butler… - Journal of the Geological …, 1997 - lyellcollection.org
Reactivation involves the accommodation of geologically separable displacement events
(intervals> 1 Ma) along pre-existing structures. The definition of a significant period of …

Late Holocene lake levels of the Dead Sea

Y Enzel, A Agnon, M Stein - Geological Society of …, 2004 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This work presents a high-resolution lake-level record of the late Holocene Dead Sea, a
hypersaline terminal lake whose drainage basin encompasses both Mediterranean and …

Soft-sediment deformation within seismogenic slumps of the Dead Sea Basin

GI Alsop, S Marco - Journal of Structural Geology, 2011 - Elsevier
The Late Pleistocene Lisan Formation preserved next to the Dead Sea provides exceptional
3-D exposures of folds and faults generated during soft-sediment slumping and deformation …

Recurrence pattern of Holocene earthquakes along the Dead Sea transform revealed by varve-counting and radiocarbon dating of lacustrine sediments

C Migowski, A Agnon, R Bookman… - Earth and Planetary …, 2004 - Elsevier
A high-resolution Holocene seismic history of the Dead Sea Transform (DST) is established
from laminated sedimentary cores recovered at the shores of the Dead Sea. Radiocarbon …

1822 earthquake‐triggered homogenite in Lake Le Bourget (NW Alps)

E Chapron, C Beck, M Pourchet, JF Deconinck - Terra Nova, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
High‐resolution textural signatures of an earthquake‐induced historical 'homogenite'layer
are presented, as well as its 3D distribution. This homogeneous deposit is correlated with …