Holocene and latest Pleistocene activity on the Mesquite Lake fault near twentynine palms, eastern California shear zone: Implications for fault interaction

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 96, Issue 4 A, 2006, Pages 1305-1320

  Madden, Christopher L ^a,b   Rubin, Charles M ^a   Streig, Ashley ^a  

^a CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Earth Consultants International Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; MASS SPECTROMETERS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETER RADIOCARBON; PALEOSEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC STRAIN RELEASE; SHEAR ZONE;

SEISMOLOGY;

HOLOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; PLEISTOCENE; PREHISTORIC; SHEAR ZONE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PROSOPIS;

EID: 33748058444     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120020120     Document Type: Article

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