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Dating large infrequent earthquakes by damaged cave deposits
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In this article, the authors presented a rigorously dated record of earthquakes from an extensive number of well-preserved pre- seismic and postseismic precipitates from caves located off the Dead Sea transform.Abstract:
The long-term recurrence patterns of past earthquakes are of considerable consequence for hazard assessments, and have implications for earthquake physics. We introduce a rigorously dated record of earthquakes from an extensive number of well-preserved pre- seismic and postseismic precipitates from caves located off the Dead Sea transform. We dated events directly at the paleoseismic contact by means of a novel correlation method with the oxygen isotope record of the speleothems recovered in one of the caves. Within the 185 k.y. covered, we dated 38 seismite samples. These stem from 13-18 earthquakes with a mean recurrence interval of ;10-14 k.y. We show that the deformational events dated in the study caves complement independent near-fault paleoseismic records by tem- poral correlation with the earthquakes recorded therein. This opens up a significant new avenue of earthquake research that will provide precise dating and observational con- straints on large infrequent earthquakes.read more
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U-series dating and geochemical tracing of late Quaternary travertine in co-seismic fissures
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TL;DR: In this paper, a method to constrain the timing of fissure generation related to late Quaternary seismic events using the uranium-series technique is presented, where the carbonate generation in the co-seismic fissures is interpreted to be the product of rapid precipitation from deeply infiltrated and CO2-enriched surface water during seismic strain cycles.
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Response of normal faults to glacial‐interglacial fluctuations of ice and water masses on Earth's surface
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Speleoseismology: A critical perspective
Arnfried Becker,Colin A. Davenport,Urs Eichenberger,Eric Gilli,Pierre-Yves Jeannin,Corinne Lacave +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a robust earthquake explanation for cave damage can only be achieved by the adoption of appropriate methods of direct dating of deformation events in cave archives combined with correlation of events in other geological archives outside caves, such as the deformation of lake and flood-plain deposits, locations of rock falls and active fault displacements.
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Intrabasin paleoearthquake and quiescence correlation of the late Holocene Dead Sea
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Late Quaternary Paleoclimate in the Eastern Mediterranean Region from Stable Isotope Analysis of Speleothems at Soreq Cave, Israel
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