Paleoearthquakes in the Baikal region: Methods and results of timing

Geotectonics - Tập 44 - Trang 158-175 - 2010
O. P. Smekalin1, A. V. Chipizubov1, V. S. Imaev1
1Institute of the Earth’s Crust, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk, Russia

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Over the half-century history of seismological studies in the Baikal region, more than 70 seismotectonic or inferred seismic dislocations related to displacements along active faults have been established. Some of them have been studied in detail by trenching and methods of absolute and relative timing. The current work discusses the age of paleoearthquakes in the Baikal region and gives an overview of modern methods of dating of related dislocations.

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