Past earthquake-induced rapid subsidence along the northern San Andreas fault: A paleoseismological method for investigating strike-slip faults

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 2612-2636

  Knudsen, Keith L ^a   Witter, Robert C ^a   Garrison Laney, Carolyn E ^b   Baldwin, John N ^a   Carver, Gary A ^b  

^a William Lettis and Associates Inc   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; ESTUARIES; PROBABILITY; ROCKS; SEDIMENTS; SOIL MECHANICS;

FAULT ZONES;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

PALEOSEISMICITY; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBSIDENCE;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038044663     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120000613     Document Type: Article

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