Evidence for Holocene displacements on the Bootheel fault (lineament) in southeastern Missouri: Seismotectonic implications for the New Madrid region

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 319-333

  Guccione, Margaret J ^a   Marple, Ronald ^b   Autin, Whitney J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b SUNY College at Brockport ^*  (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake hazard studies; Faults; Liquefaction; Mississippi River valley; Neotectonics; New Madrid seismic zone; Paleoseismology; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; ELECTRIC LOADS; SAND; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; ZONING;

BOOTEETHAL FAULTS; COMPRESSIONAL POP UP; HOLOCENE DISPLACEMENTS; LINEAMENT;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

HOLOCENE; SEISMOTECTONICS;

MISSOURI; NEW MADRID; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 15844406153     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25435.1     Document Type: Article

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