Persistent termini of 2004- and 2005-like ruptures of the Sunda megathrust
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Introduction This Auxiliary Material contains detailed discussions of our study sites and of each coral head analyzed. We methodically describe the Bunon sites (Text S1 and Figures S1–S12) and Pulau Penyu site (Text S2 and Figures S13–S18), and we explain the construction of relative sea-level histories, considering multiple scenarios where data are ambiguous. Supplementary tables provide details on the 14 coral heads used in our study, plus two additional heads from the Ujung Lambajo auxiliary site (Table S1); complete results of U-Th dating analyses on all fossil coral samples (Table S2); dates of presumed uplift of individual coral heads (Table S3); and inferred dates of uplift events determined by calculating weighted averages and considering all information at each site (Table S4). Northern Simeulue sites are described in similar detail in an earlier paper [Meltzner et al., 2010a].
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تاریخ انتشار 2012