Comparison of geodetic and geologic data from the Wasatch region, Utah, and implications for the spectral character of Earth deformation at periods of 10 to 10 million years

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Friedrich, Anke M ^a   Wernicke, Brian P ^a   Niemi, Nathan A ^a   Bennett, Richard A ^b   Davis, James L ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake cycle; Fault slip rate; Geodetic; Geologic; Normal fault; Timescale

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT SLIP; GEODESY; GPS; NEOTECTONICS;

UNITED STATES; UTAH; WASATCH;

EID: 0043027729     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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