Faulting along the Southeastern Margin of the Reelfoot Rift in Northwestern Tennessee revealed in deep seismic-reflection profiles

Seismological Research Letters

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 784-793

  Parrish, Shane ^a   Van Arsdale, Roy ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; FAULTING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

BASEMENT FAULTS; DEEP SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FLOWER STRUCTURES; REFLECTION LINES; REVERSE FAULTING; REVERSE FAULTS; TRANSPRESSION;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 27644480326     PISSN: 08950695     EISSN: 19382057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/gssrl.75.6.784     Document Type: Article

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