Quaternary slip history of the Bare Mountain fault (Nevada) from the morphology and distribution of alluvial fan deposits

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 559-562

  Ferrill, David A ^a   Stamatakos, John A ^a   Jones, Sidney M ^a   Rahe, Bret ^a   McKague, H Lawrence ^a   Martin, Ronald H ^a   Morris, Alan P ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; MORPHOLOGY;

ALLUVIAL FANS; GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINT; HOLOCENE DEPOSITS; MINIMUM VALUE; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT SOURCE AREAS; SLIP RATES; SOURCE AREA; HOLOCENES;

LANDFORMS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ALLUVIAL FAN; DIP-SLIP FAULT; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SEDIMENTATION; SLIP RATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; ALLUVIAL FAN SEDIMENTATION; DIP; FAULT; NEOTECTONICS; QUATERNARY; SLIP HISTORY;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES; BARE MOUNTAIN FAULT; USA;

EID: 0029751662     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0559:QSHOTB>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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