Precariously balanced rocks and seismic risk

Endeavour

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 168-172

  Brune, James N ^a   Bell, John W ^a   Anooshehpoor, Abdolrasool ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRECARIOUSLY BALANCED ROCK; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC RISK; SEISMICITY; STRONG GROUND MOTION;

EID: 0030301030     PISSN: 01609327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0160-9327(96)10029-6     Document Type: Article

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