The southern Whidbey Island fault: An active structure in the Puget Lowland, Washington

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 334-354

  Johnson, Samuel Y ^a   Potter, Christopher J ^a   Armentrout, John M ^b   Miller, John J ^a   Finn, Carol ^a   Weaver, Craig S ^c  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC WAVES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CLOCKWISE ROTATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; HISTORICAL SEISMICITY; OUT-OF-PLANE DISPLACEMENT; QUATERNARY SEDIMENTS; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; STRUCTURAL STYLES; TRANSPRESSIONAL DEFORMATION; ACTIVE STRUCTURES; CRUSTAL BLOCK; POTENTIAL FIELD; PUGET LOWLANDS; RANGE BLOCK; WASHINGTON;

FAULT SLIPS;

BOREHOLE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT; EOCENE; LIQUEFACTION; PLATE CONVERGENCE; POTENTIAL FIELD; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC HAZARD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THRUST FAULT; FAULT; POTENTIAL FIELD SURVEY; SEISMIC SURVEY; TECTONICS; TRANSPRESSION;

PUGET LOWLAND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; WHIDBEY ISLAND; USA; WASHINGTON;

EID: 0029750904     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<0334:TSWIFA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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