Structure and earthquake offsets on the San Andreas fault at the Wrightwood, California paleoseismic site

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 2704-2725

  Weldon, II ^a   Fumal, T E ^b   Powers, T J ^a   Pezzopane, S K ^a   Scharer, K M ^a   Hamilton, J C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRATIGRAPHY;

FAULT ZONES;

SEISMOLOGY;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; PALEOSEISMICITY; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; STRATIGRAPHY;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES; WRIGHTWOOD;

EID: 0038467382     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120000612     Document Type: Article

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