Structure of the Lake County uplift: New Madrid seismic zone

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1204-1211

  Purser, Jodi L ^a   Van Arsdale, Roy B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

FAULTING; NEOTECTONICS; SEISMIC ZONE; UPLIFT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032466712     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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