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Geodinamica Acta, 2004, Vol 17, Issue 3, p. 229-240
Glacial causes of damage and difficulties to use speleothems as palaeoseismic indicators
Gilli E,
Abstract:
Fractures that affect cave speleothems have often been described as the result of earthquakes and their use in paleoseismic studies is more and more frequent. Nevertheless observations during and after earthquakes, modeling and laboratory experiments indicate that, except for some slender speleothems, the cave formations usually do not break during an earthquake. New observations in caves in France and Slovenia reveal other mechanisms as the creeping of ice or clay filling that easily explain most of the breaks. (C) 2004 Lavoisier SAS. All rights reserved
Fractures that affect cave speleothems have often been described as the result of earthquakes and their use in paleoseismic studies is more and more frequent. Nevertheless observations during and after earthquakes, modeling and laboratory experiments indicate that, except for some slender speleothems, the cave formations usually do not break during an earthquake. New observations in caves in France and Slovenia reveal other mechanisms as the creeping of ice or clay filling that easily explain most of the breaks. (C) 2004 Lavoisier SAS. All rights reserved
Keywords: c, causes, cave, cave formation, caves, clay, creep, damage, earthquake, earthquakes, fracture, fractures, france, ice, indicator, indicators, karst sediments, laboratories, mechanism, mechanisms, modeling, slovenia, speleothem, speleothems, time, times,