Defining the southwestern end of the Blytheville Arch, northeastern Arkansas: delimiting a seismic source zone in the New Madrid region

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 350-358

  Crone, Anthony J ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; SEISMIC VELOCITY STRUCTURE; SEISMICITY;

ARKANSAS; USA;

EID: 0031711189     PISSN: 00128287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.69.4.350     Document Type: Article

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