Summary of the temporal and spatial relations of Quaternary faulting during the past 100 k.y. at Yucca Mountain: Evidence for distributive surface ruptures on multiple faults

US Geological Survey Professional Paper

Volumn , Issue 1689, 2004, Pages 197-206

  Keefer, William R ^a   Menges, Christopher M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FAULTING; QUATERNARY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

YUCCA;

EID: 19944387934     PISSN: 10449612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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