Growth of late quaternary folds in southwest Santa Clara Valley, San Francisco Bay area, California: Implications of triggered slip for seismic hazard and earthquake recurrence

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 391-394

  Hitchcock, Christopher S ^a   Kelson, Keith I ^a  

^a William Lettis and Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FANS; CALIFORNIA; CREEP PROCESS; DEFORMATION RATES; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; GEOLOGIC SLIP RATES; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; INCISION RATES; LATE CENOZOIC; LATE PLEISTOCENE; LATE QUATERNARY; LOMA PRIETA EARTHQUAKES; POSTSEISMIC SLIP; RETURN PERIODS; REVERSE FAULTING; REVERSE FAULTS; SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA , CALIFORNIA; SANTA CLARA; SEISMIC HAZARDS; SLIP RATES; UPLIFT RATE; POSTSEISMIC CREEPS;

EARTHQUAKES; LANDFORMS; CREEP;

CREEP; FAULT SLIPS;

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; FAULTING; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; RETURN PERIOD; SEISMIC HAZARD; SLIP RATE; UPLIFT; COSEISMIC PROCESS; CREEP; EARTHQUAKE; FOLD; SLIP;

CALIFORNIA; COAST RANGES; LOMA PRIETA; SAN FRANCISCO BAY; SANTA CLARA VALLEY; SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032831118     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0391:GOLQFI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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