Rupture terminations and size of segment boundaries from historical earthquake ruptures in the Basin and Range Province

Tectonophysics

Volumn 308, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 37-52

  Zhang, Peizhen ^a   Mao, Fengying ^a   Slemmons, D B ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discontinuity; Fault segmentation; Rupture terminations; Structural discontinuity

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUITY; EARTHQUAKE INTENSITY; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEGMENTATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032717175     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00089-X     Document Type: Article

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