Late Pleistocene and Holocene paleoearthquake activity of the Olinghouse fault zone, Nevada

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1301-1313

  Briggs, Richard W ^a   Wesnousky, Steven G ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GEODESY; MAPPING; TECTONICS;

FAULT SURFACE TRACE MAPPING; PALEOSEISMIC TRENCHING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

SEISMOLOGY;

FAULT ZONE; NEOTECTONICS; SEISMICITY;

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

EID: 24944491415     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120040129     Document Type: Article

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