Seismic evidence of Quaternary faulting in the Benton Hills area, southeast Missouri

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 650-661

  Palmer, J R ^a   Shoemaker, M ^b   Hoffman, D ^a   Anderson, N L ^b   Vaughn, J D ^a   Harrison, R W ^c  

^a Division of Geology and Land Survey   (United States)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FAULTING; NEOTECTONICS; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC SURVEY; TECTONICS;

USA, MISSOURI, BENTON HILLS;

EID: 0031456547     PISSN: 00128287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.68.4.650     Document Type: Article

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