Fault slip rates and initiation age based on diffusion equation modeling: Wasatch Fault Zone and eastern Great Basin

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 106, Issue B7, 2001, Pages 13739-13750

  Mattson, Ann ^a   Bruhn, Ronald L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT SCARP; FAULT SLIP; GEOMORPHOLOGY; NEOTECTONICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

UNITED STATES; UTAH; WASATCH FAULT ZONE;

EID: 0034903794     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jb900003     Document Type: Article

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