Recent deformation along the offshore Malibu Coast, Dume, and related faults west of Point Dume, southern California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2486-2500

  Fisher, Michael A ^a   Langenheim, Victoria E ^a   Sorlien, Christopher C ^b   Dartnell, Peter ^a   Sliter, Ray W ^a   Cochrane, Guy R ^a   Wong, Florence L ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; EARTHQUAKES; HAZARDS; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

BOUNDARY FAULT SYSTEM; EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS; OFFSHORE FAULTS;

SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE; SEISMIC HAZARD;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 31544475441     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120050042     Document Type: Article

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