Paleomagnetic correlation of late Holocene earthquakes among estuaries in Washington and Oregon

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Hagstrum, Jonathan T ^a   Atwater, Brian F ^b   Sherrod, Brian L ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Estuarine mud; Pacific Northwest; Paleomagnetism; Paleosecular variation; Paleoseismology

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846325454     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GC000736     Document Type: Article

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