Geobulletin alpha

Source info:

Author:
Date:	2026-01-14 20:54:24
Blog:	Paleoseismicity
URL:	https://paleoseismicity.org/when-paleoseismology-becomes-uncomfortable-a-short-fault-scarp-in-a-mature-orogen/

Summary:

By Jacek and Christoph Paleoseismology was developed in places where faults behave well. In California, Anatolia, or along major plate-boundary faults, earthquakes repeatedly break the surface in rather short recurrence intervals, and they form long scarps. In such settings, tectonic geomorphology, subsurface data, and empirical scaling laws between rupture lengths and offset tend to point in the same direction. These regions have been essential for developing paleoseismic methods—but they have also shaped our expectations in ways that are not always

Content analysis:

Keywords:

Paper