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Palaeo-earthquake events during the late Early Palaeozoic in the central Tarim Basin (NW China): evidence from deep drilling cores Cover

Palaeo-earthquake events during the late Early Palaeozoic in the central Tarim Basin (NW China): evidence from deep drilling cores

Geologos
Volume 20 (2014): Issue 2 (June 2014)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/logos-2014-0006 | Journal eISSN: 2080-6574 | Journal ISSN: 1426-8981
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Language: English
Page range: 105 - 123
Submitted on: Jan 20, 2014
Accepted on: Feb 13, 2014
Published on: Jul 8, 2014
Published by: Adam Mickiewicz University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
soft-sediment deformation structures,
seismites,
palaeo-seismicity,
Late Ordovician,
Silurian,
Tazhong 1 Fault,
Tarim Basin
Related subjects:
Geosciences,
Geology and mineralogy

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