Turbidite chronostratigraphy off Algiers, central Algerian margin: A key for reconstructing Holocene paleo-earthquake cycles

Reconstruction of the Central Zagros paleo climate and paleo environment

Introduction The study of lake sediments has been widely used in recent decades to identify past climate and environmental changes. Lake basins have significant spatial and temporal patterns and provide valuable evidences of physical and chemical changes. However, in general, the climate of the Holocene period has been more stable and uniform than previous glacial and interglacial periods. How...

Great earthquakes along the Western United States continental margin: implications for hazards, stratigraphy and turbidite lithology

We summarize the importance of great earthquakes (Mw & 8) for hazards, stratigraphy of basin floors, and turbidite lithology along the active tectonic continental margins of the Cascadia subduction zone and the northern San Andreas Transform Fault by utilizing studies of swath bathymetry visual core descriptions, grain size analysis, Xray radiographs and physical properties. Recurrence times of...

Short Note Holocene Earthquake History of Cascadia: A Quantitative Test

Motivated by the Holocene history of great Cascadia earthquakes proposed by Goldfinger et al. (2012), we developed a simple model by which we can examine this further. Combining their observation that the plate boundary ruptures in four characteristic segment types with an empirical area versus seismic moment relation and an assumption of constant stress drop, we obtain a model for the along-st...

Reconstructing Central Texas Holocene Soil Erosion and Climate Using Carbon, Oxygen and Strontium Isotopes: a Research Proposal

Risk Margin for a Non-Life Insurance Run-Off

For solvency purposes insurance companies need to calculate so-called best-estimate reserves for outstanding loss liability cash flows and a corresponding risk margin for nonhedgeable insurance-technical risks in these cash flows. In actuarial practice, the calculation of the risk margin is often not based on a sound model but various simplified methods are used. In the present paper we properl...