Dating rupture events on alluvial fault scarps using cosmogenic nuclides and scarp morphology

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 215, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 203-218

  Phillips, Fred M ^a   Ayarbe, John P ^a   Harrison, J Bruce J ^a   Elmore, David ^b  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorine 36; Cosmogenic nuclide dating; Neotectonics; Palaeoseismology; Scarp morphology; Seismic hazard

Indexed keywords

CHRONOLOGY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; FAULT SCARP; NEOTECTONICS; PALEOSEISMICITY; QUATERNARY; RUPTURE; SEISMIC HAZARD;

EID: 0141919543     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00419-9     Document Type: Article

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