Stratigraphic evidence for millennial-scale temporal clustering of earthquakes on a continental-interior fault: Holocene Mississippi River floodplain deposits, New Madrid seismic zone, USA

Tectonophysics

Volumn 420, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 431-454

  Holbrook, John ^a   Autin, Whitney J ^b   Rittenour, Tammy M ^e   Marshak, Stephen ^d   Goble, Ronald J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault; Fluvial; Intraplate tectonics; Mississippi River; New Madrid seismic zone; Paleoseismology; Stratigraphic proxy; Temporal clustering

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL INTERIOR; EARTHQUAKE; FLOODPLAIN; HOLOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SEISMIC ZONE; THRUST FAULT;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33745191642     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.04.002     Document Type: Article

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