Soil catenas to estimate ages of movements on normal fault scarps, with an example from the Wasatch fault zone, Utah, USA

Catena

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 265-286

  McCalpin, James P ^a   Berry, Margaret E ^b  

^a GEO HAZ Consulting Inc   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

catenas; fault scarps; paleoearthquakes; soil; Wasatch fault

Indexed keywords

CATENA;

EID: 0030266540     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0341-8162(96)00020-3     Document Type: Article

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