The beatty scarp in Nye County, Nevada - An important late quaternary morphologic datum

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1650-1654

  Anderson, L W ^a   Klinger, R E ^a  

^a U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MARGIN; FAULT SCARP; MORPHOLOGICAL DATUM; QUATERNARY(LATE); SCARP PROFILE; SLOPE ANGLE;

USA, NEVADA, AMARGOSA RIVER, BEATTY;

EID: 0030435964     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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