Identifying the greatest earthquakes of the past 2000 years at the Nehalem River estuary, northern Oregon coast, USA

• Main Authors: Nelson, Alan R., Hawkes, Andrea D., Sawai, Yuki, Engelhart, Simon E., Witter, Rob, Grant-Walter, Wendy C., Bradley, Lee-Ann, Dura, Tina, Cahill, Niamh, Horton, Benjamin Peter
• 其他作者: Asian School of the Environment
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2020
• 主題: Social sciences::Geography; Paleoseismology; Cascadia Subduction Zone
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145241

We infer a history of three great megathrust earthquakes during the past 2000 years at the Nehalem River estuary based on the lateral extent of sharp (≤3 mm) peat-mud stratigraphic contacts in cores and outcrops, coseismic subsidence as interpreted from fossil diatom assemblages and reconstructed wi...