Proposed revision of marine terrace extent, geometry, and rates of uplift, Pacific Palisades, California

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 253-275

  Shaller, Philip J ^a   Heron, Christopher W ^b  

^a EXPONENT INC   (United States)

^b URS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Coastal uplift; Pacific Palisades; Santa Monica fault; Santa Monica Mountains blind thrust fault; Wave cut marine terrace

Indexed keywords

FAULT; KINEMATICS; SEISMIC HAZARD; TERRACE; UPLIFT; WAVE-CUT PLATFORM;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

VILLA;

EID: 13444249753     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/10.3.253     Document Type: Article

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