Submergence and uplift associated with the giant 1833 Sumatran subduction earthquake : evidence from coral microatolls

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Taylor, Frederick W., Hantoro, Wahyoe S., Zachariasen, Judith, Sieh, Kerry, Edwards, R. Lawrence
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2012
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Science::Geology::Volcanoes and earthquakes
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95448; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8492
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

The giant Sumatran subduction earthquake of 1833 appears as a large emergence event in fossil coral microatolls on the reefs of Sumatra's outer-arc ridge. Stratigraphic analysis of these and living microatolls nearby allow us to estimate that 1833 emergence increased trenchward from about 1 to...