Birth of a fault: Connecting the Kern County and Walker Pass, California, earthquakes

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 601-604

  Bawden, Gerald W ^a   Michael, Andrew J ^a   Kellogg, Louise H ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIPS; SLIP FORMING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

COMPLEX STRUCTURE; FAULT DEVELOPMENT; IN-LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MOMENT MAGNITUDES; SEISMIC LINEAMENTS; SHEAR FRACTURE; SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA; SURFACE EXPRESSION;

EARTHQUAKES;

FAULT; FORMATION MECHANISM; LINEAMENT; SEISMIC ZONE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032693184     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0601:BOAFCT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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