Late Middle to Late Ordovician seismites of Kentucky, southwest Ohio and Virginia: Sedimentary recorders of earthquakes in the Appalachian basin

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 489-503

  Pope, Mike C ^a   Read, J Fred ^a   Bambach, Richard ^a   Hofmann, Hans J ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHES; FAULTING; LIQUEFACTION; ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; APPALACHIAN BASIN; FORELAND BASIN; HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS; LARGE EARTHQUAKES; LATE ORDOVICIAN; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; SYNSEDIMENTARY; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS;

EARTHQUAKES;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; BRECCIA; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; FORELAND BASIN; HOLOCENE; LIQUEFACTION; ORDOVICIAN; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SEISMITE; SYNSEDIMENTARY TECTONICS; BALL AND PILLOW BED; EARTHQUAKE;

APPALACHIAN BASIN; KENTUCKY; OHIO; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA; USA;

EID: 0030833438     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0489:LMTLOS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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