Using vertical rock uplift patterns to constrain the three-dimensional fault configuration in the Los Angeles Basin

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 106-123

  Meigs, Andrew J ^a   Cooke, Michele L ^b   Marshall, Scott T ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FAULT GEOMETRY; GEOLOGIC UPLIFT PATTERNS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

FAULT GEOMETRY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMOTECTONICS; SLIP RATE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; THRUST FAULT; UPLIFT;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CANIS LATRANS;

EID: 40549109304     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120060254     Document Type: Article

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