Taconian seismogenic deformation in the appalachian orogen and the North American craton

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 164, Issue , 2000, Pages 127-137

  Rast, Nicholas ^a   Ettensohn, Frank R ^a   Rast, Diana E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE ROCK; CRATON; FAULT; LIQUEFACTION; OROGENY; PALEOSEISMICITY; PALEOZOIC; PLATE TECTONICS;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0034033401     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.164.01.07     Document Type: Article

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