Seismotectonic implications of sand blows in the southern Mississippi Embayment

Engineering Geology

Volumn 89, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 278-299

  Cox, R T ^a   Hill, A A ^a   Larsen, D ^a   Holzer, T ^b   Forman, S L ^c   Noce, T ^b   Gardner, C ^a   Morat, J ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Earthquake magnitude; Intraplate; Liquefaction; Mississippi Embayment; Paleoseismology

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE; EARTHQUAKES; SEISMOLOGY; SOIL LIQUEFACTION; TECTONICS;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; PALEOSEISMOLOGY; SAND BLOWS; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMOTECTONIC;

SAND;

CONE PENETRATION TEST; EARTHQUAKE EPICENTER; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; GROUND MOTION; HOLOCENE; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LIQUEFACTION; SEISMIC SOURCE; SEISMIC ZONE; SEISMICITY; SEISMOTECTONICS; STRESS FIELD;

MISSISSIPPI EMBAYMENT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846146997     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enggeo.2006.11.002     Document Type: Article

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