Late Quaternary uplift and earthquake potential of the San Joaquin Hills, southern Los Angeles basin, California

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1031-1034

  Grant, Lisa B ^a   Mueller, Karl J ^b   Gath, Eldon M ^a   Cheng, Hai ^c   Edwards, R Lawrence ^c   Munro, Rosalind ^d   Kennedy, George L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d Leighton and Associates   (United States)

^e SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES;

EARTHQUAKE POTENTIAL; FAULT-RELATED FOLDING; LATE QUATERNARY; LOS ANGELES; LOS ANGELES BASIN; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; STRUCTURAL MODELING; THRUST FAULTS;

FAULTING;

EARTHQUAKE; NEOTECTONICS; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC HAZARD; UPLIFT;

CALIFORNIA; SAN JOAQUIN HILLS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033368750     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<1031:LQUAEP>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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