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Paleoseismic investigations along the Peel Boundary Fault: geological setting, site selection and trenching results

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2016

M. van den Berg ,
K. Vanneste ,
B. Dost ,
A. Lokhorst ,
M. van Eijk  and
K. Verbeeck
M. van den Berg
Affiliation:
TNO-NITG, Department of Geo-Infrastructure P.O. Box 511, 8000 AM Zwolle, The Netherlands; e-mail:m.vandenberg@nitg.tno.nl
K. Vanneste
Affiliation:
TNO-NITG, Department of Geo-Infrastructure P.O. Box 511, 8000 AM Zwolle, The Netherlands; e-mail:m.vandenberg@nitg.tno.nl
B. Dost
Affiliation:
TNO-NITG, Department of Geo-Infrastructure P.O. Box 511, 8000 AM Zwolle, The Netherlands; e-mail:m.vandenberg@nitg.tno.nl
A. Lokhorst
Affiliation:
TNO-NITG, Department of Geo-Infrastructure P.O. Box 511, 8000 AM Zwolle, The Netherlands; e-mail:m.vandenberg@nitg.tno.nl
M. van Eijk
Affiliation:
TNO-NITG, Department of Geo-Infrastructure P.O. Box 511, 8000 AM Zwolle, The Netherlands; e-mail:m.vandenberg@nitg.tno.nl
K. Verbeeck
Affiliation:
TNO-NITG, Department of Geo-Infrastructure P.O. Box 511, 8000 AM Zwolle, The Netherlands; e-mail:m.vandenberg@nitg.tno.nl
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On the basis of a multidisciplinary approach we have unraveled the palaeo-earthquake history of a trenched section across the Peel Boundary Fault. The area shows at present one of the largest contrasts in relative motion on both sides of the fault on the basis of repeated levelling. The geological record for the last 25 thousand years, recovered in the trench, shows evidence of two heavy earthquakes (moment magnitude between 6.0 and 6.6), that occurred in a relatively short timespan around 15 thousands years ago. A third less severe event occurred somewhere in the mid Holocene. The time interval between the two large events is in the order of 1500 years, an interval comparable to that between the last volcanic explosions in the nearby Eifel area. Both records together seem to suggest a relation between large-scale faulting and volcanic activity in the nearby Eifel area, but this interpretation is based on one trench only and should be tested by opening more trenches in the zone that is assumed to be affected by these large events.

Keywords

Peel Boundary FaultPalaeoseismologyTrenchingMorphotectonicsRecurrence time
Type
Special section: Palaeosis ECGS/CEGS additional papers
Information
Netherlands Journal of Geosciences , Volume 81 , Issue 1 , March 2002 , pp. 39 - 60
Copyright
Copyright © Stichting Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 2002

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