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Region II:
The Upper Rhine Graben System
(Alsace and Basel area)

1. Introduction

2. Methodological approach

3. Identfying trench sites

3.1 Site Selection

3.2 Pre-trenching investigations

3.3. Trenching and paleoseismological studies

4.Regional effects of large paleo- earthquakes

5. Upcoming investigations

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3.1. Sites selection (before trenching) or scarp selection

Selected fault zones were chosen considering the morphological analysis and field investigation results.

Target portions of presumed active fault are (1998):

Mundolsheim scarp (a segment of Balsheim-Achenheim-Mundolsheim fault).

Achenheim Scarp (Wernert fault exposure)

Saverne sedimentary anomaly

Riedseltz exposed quaternary fault.