Majid Shah-Hossein Author

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Coastal hazard assessment of Makran coast (SE Iran) due to global sea level rise

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Ezatollah Ghanavati and Majid Shah-Hossein

The Makran coast, in southeastern Iran, sits above oceanic lithosphere of the Arabian plate that is currently subducting northward under Eurasia. The coast has clearly experienced long-term uplift throughout the Late Pleistocene, as evidenced by the presence of emerged sequences of marine terraces, some of which outcrop at more than a hundred meters above present sea-level . In eastern Makran (Pakistan), surface uplift of the coastal margin appears to be closely linked with large earthquakes, the last of which was a Mw 8.1 thrust event in 1945 However, in the western segment of the Makran (Iran), there is no obvious historical evidence for large earthquakes in the last 1000 years ] It is currently unclear whether the lack of seismicity reflects a different mechanical behavior at the sub... view more»

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