Uplift and subsidence reveal a nonpersistent megathrust rupture boundary

被引：55

作者：

Briggs, Richard W. ^{[1
]}

Engelhart, Simon E. ^{[2
]}

Nelson, Alan R. ^{[1
]}

Dura, Tina ^{[3
]}

Kemp, Andrew C. ^{[4
]}

Haeussler, Peter J. ^{[5
]}

Corbett, D. Reide ^{[6
]}

Angster, Stephen J. ^{[1
]}

Bradley, Lee-Ann ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] US Geol Survey, Geol Hazards Sci Ctr, Golden, CO 80401 USA

[2] Univ Rhode Isl, Dept Geosci, Kingston, RI 02881 USA

[3] Univ Penn, Dept Earth & Environm Sci, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA

[4] Tufts Univ, Dept Earth & Ocean Sci, Medford, MA 02155 USA

[5] US Geol Survey, Alaska Sci Ctr, Anchorage, AK USA

[6] E Carolina Univ, Dept Geol Sci, Greenville, NC USA

来源：

GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS | 2014年 / 41卷 / 07期

关键词：

megathrust; rupture; Alaska; earthquake; diatom; Sitkinak Island; ALEUTIAN MEGATHRUST; GREAT EARTHQUAKES; LATE HOLOCENE; ALASKA; DEFORMATION; WASHINGTON; SEGMENT; MARGIN; EXTENT; ZONE;

D O I：

10.1002/2014GL059380

中图分类号：

P [天文学、地球科学];

学科分类号：

07 ;

摘要：

We report stratigraphic evidence of land-level change and tsunami inundation along the Alaska-Aleutian megathrust during prehistoric and historical earthquakes west of Kodiak Island. On Sitkinak Island, cores and tidal outcrops fringing a lagoon reveal five sharp lithologic contacts that record coseismic land-level change. Radiocarbon dates, Cs-137 profiles, computerized tomography scans, and microfossil assemblages are consistent with rapid uplift circa 290-0, 520-300, and 1050-790calyr B.P. and subsidence in A.D. 1964 and circa 640-510calyr B.P. Radiocarbon, Cs-137, and Pb-210 ages bracketing a sand bed traced 1.5km inland and evidence for sudden uplift are consistent with Russian accounts of an earthquake and tsunami in A.D. 1788. The mixed uplift and subsidence record suggests that Sitkinak Island sits above a nonpersistent boundary near the southwestern limit of the A.D. 1964 M-w 9.2 megathrust rupture.

引用

页码：2289 / 2296

页数：8

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