Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Sand spikes pinpoint powerful palaeoseismicity

  • Elmar Buchner,
  • Volker J. Sach,
  • Martin Schmieder

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27061-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Sand spikes, sandstone bodies that have been enigmatic for nearly two centuries, represent a new type of seismite and a promising tool to identify strong impact-induced or tectonic paleo-earthquakes and their source regions in the geologic record.