Giant sandstone pipes record basin-scale liquefaction of buried dune sands in the Middle Jurassic of SE Utah

Terra Nova

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 80-85

  Huuse, Mads ^a   Shoulders, Simon J ^a   Netoff, Dennis I ^b   Cartwright, Joe ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; JURASSIC; LIQUEFACTION; SANDSTONE;

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

EID: 15044350990     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2004.00587.x     Document Type: Article

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