Progressive growth of San Clemente Island, California, by blind thrust faulting: Implications for fault slip partitioning in the California Continental Borderland

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 712-734

  Ward, Steven N ^a   Valensise, Gianluca ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

California Continental Borderland; Fault tectonics; San Clemente Island

Indexed keywords

BLIND THRUST FAULTING; EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION; FAULT SLIP; FAULTS; PARTITIONING; SEISMICITY; TECTONICS; THRUSTING;

USA, CALIFORNIA, SAN CLEMENTE ISLAND;

EID: 0030451701     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1996.tb04699.x     Document Type: Article

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