Upper Mississippi embayment shallow seismic velocities measured in situ

Engineering Geology

Volumn 46, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 313-330

  Liu, Hsi Ping ^a   Hu, Yiguang ^b   Dorman, James ^b   Chang, Tzyy Shiou ^b,c   Chiu, Jer Ming ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^c CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Flood plain deposit; Ground motion; Sediment; Seismic velocities

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; TECTONICS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

FLOOD PLAIN DEPOSIT; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC WAVE VELOCITY;

SEISMIC WAVES;

EMBAYMENT; FLOOD PLAIN; FLOODPLAIN; GROUND MOTION; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC VELOCITY;

USA, MISSISSIPPI EMBAYMENT;

EID: 0031184514     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7952(97)00009-4     Document Type: Article

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