Dating San Andreas fault earthquakes with lichenometry

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 111-114

  Bull, William B ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROCK BURSTS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

CONFIDENCE LEVELS; DEGREE OF CLUSTERING; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE INTERVALS; HISTORICAL EARTHQUAKES; PALEOSEISMOLOGY; RADIOCARBON AGE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SURFACE RUPTURES; CALIFORNIA; LICHENOMETRY; SIERRA NEVADA;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LICHENOMETRY; PREHISTORIC; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; ROCKFALL; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE INTERVAL; HISTORICAL SEISMICITY;

CALIFORNIA; SAN ANDREAS; UNITED STATES; SIERRA NEVADA; USA;

EID: 0029753699     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0111:DSAFEW>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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