Environmental signal propagation in sedimentary systems across timescales

BW Romans, S Castelltort, JA Covault, A Fildani… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Earth-surface processes operate across erosionally dominated landscapes and deliver
sediment to depositional systems that can be preserved over a range of timescales. The …

High-altitude varve records of abrupt environmental changes and mining activity over the last 4000 years in the Western French Alps (Lake Bramant, Grandes …

H Guyard, E Chapron, G St-Onge, FS Anselmetti… - quaternary science …, 2007 - Elsevier
Two twin short gravity cores and a long piston core recovered from the deepest part of
proglacial Lake Bramant (Grandes Rousses Massif, French Alps), under and overlying a …

Lacustrine turbidites as a tool for quantitative earthquake reconstruction: New evidence for a variable rupture mode in south central Chile

J Moernaut, MV Daele, K Heirman… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the long‐term earthquake recurrence pattern at subduction zones requires
continuous paleoseismic records with excellent temporal and spatial resolution and stable …

Lake sediments as natural seismographs: A compiled record of Late Quaternary earthquakes in Central Switzerland and its implication for Alpine deformation

M Strasser, K Monecke, M Schnellmann… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Central Switzerland lies tectonically in an intraplate area and recurrence rates of strong
earthquakes exceed the time span covered by historic chronicles. However, many lakes are …

A comparison of the sedimentary records of the 1960 and 2010 great Chilean earthquakes in 17 lakes: Implications for quantitative lacustrine palaeoseismology

M Van Daele, J Moernaut, L Doom, E Boes… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Seismically‐induced event deposits embedded in the sedimentary infill of lacustrine basins
are highly useful for palaeoseismic reconstructions. Recent, well‐documented, great …

Age distribution of fossil landslides in the Tyrol (Austria) and its surrounding areas

C Prager, C Zangerl, G Patzelt… - Natural Hazards and …, 2008 - nhess.copernicus.org
Some of the largest mass movements in the Alps cluster spatially in the Tyrol (Austria). Fault-
related valley deepening and coalescence of brittle discontinuities structurally controlled the …

Lake sediments record high intensity shaking that provides insight into the location and rupture length of large earthquakes on the Alpine Fault, New Zealand

JD Howarth, SJ Fitzsimons, RJ Norris… - Earth and Planetary …, 2014 - Elsevier
Understanding the seismic hazard posed by large earthquakes requires paleoseismic
investigation because most faults have not ruptured repeatedly during the period of historic …

Time-dependent recurrence of strong earthquake shaking near plate boundaries: A lake sediment perspective

J Moernaut - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Accurate probabilistic seismic hazard analysis requires a good knowledge of the recurrence
parameters of the strongest earthquakes in a region. Due to the typical short temporal span …

Lake sediments as archives of recurrence rates and intensities of past flood events

A Gilli, FS Anselmetti, L Glur, SB Wirth - … on Fans and Cones: Methods and …, 2013 - Springer
Palaeoflood hydrology is an expanding field as the damage potential of flood and flood-
related processes are increasing with the population density and the value of the …

Natural hazards, extreme events, and mountain topography

O Korup, JJ Clague - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
The hazard of any natural process can be expressed as a function of its magnitude and the
annual probability of its occurrence in a particular region. Here we expand on the hypothesis …