Code
31500112
Duration
01 January 2012 → 31 December 2014
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Geology
- Geophysics
Keywords
limnogeology
paleoseismology
landslides
Chile
slope failure
Project description
This project will generate quantitative paleo-earthquake information for South-Central Chile. We reconstruct the temporal evolution of slope stability of sedimentary sequences in several Chilean lakes.
This allows us to reveal the strength of paleo-earthquake shaking which made these sequences collapse. For this, a bathymetric and geotechnical study is executed in collaboration with ETH Zürich and MARUM Bremen.