Liquefaction evidence for holocene and latest pleistocene seismicity in the Southern Halves of Indiana and Illinois: A preliminary overview

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 521-536

  Munson, Patrick J ^a   Obermeier, Stephen F ^b   Munson, Cheryl Ann ^a   Hajic, Edwin R ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c RESEARCH AND COLLECTIONS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE HAZARD; HOLOCENE; LIQUEFACTION; PALAEOSEISMICITY; PLEISTOCENE; SEISMIC HAZARD;

USA, ILLINOIS; USA, INDIANA;

EID: 0031444510     PISSN: 00128287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.68.4.521     Document Type: Review

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