Late quaternary paleoseismology of the southern Steens fault zone, northern Nevada

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1662-1678

  Personius, Stephen F ^a   Crone, Anthony J ^a   Machette, Michael N ^a   Mahan, Shannon A ^a   Kyung, Jai Bok ^b   Cisneros, Hector ^c   Lidke, David J ^a  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Korea National University of Education   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN LUIS   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HISTORY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

FAULT ZONE; PALEOSEISMOLOGY;

SEISMOLOGY;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; NORMAL FAULT; PALEOSEISMICITY; QUATERNARY; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; SLIP RATE;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; STEENS MOUNTAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35548990507     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060202     Document Type: Article

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