Shallow geometry and displacements on the San Andreas Fault near Point Arena based on trenching and 3-D georadar surveying

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2002, Pages

  Gross, Ralf ^a   Green, Alan ^a   Holliger, Klaus ^a   Horstmeyer, Heinrich ^a   Baldwin, John ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b William Lettis and Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; TECTONICS;

1906 SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE; 3-D GEORADAR; FAULT STRANDS; FLUVIAL SEDIMENT; HORIZONTAL DISPLACEMENTS; PALEO-CHANNEL; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEDIMENTARY BOUNDARIES;

FAULTING;

EID: 0037110237     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015534     Document Type: Article

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