Preliminary assessment of sand blows in the southern Mississippi Embayment

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1125-1142

  Cox, Randel Tom ^a   Larsen, Daniel ^a   Forman, Steven ^b   Woods, Jamie ^a   Morat, Jason ^a   Galluzzi, Joseph ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; LUMINESCENCE; SAND; SEISMIC WAVES; SOIL LIQUEFACTION;

INFRARED STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE (IRSL); RADIOCARBONS;

SEISMOLOGY;

ACTIVE FAULT; EARTHQUAKE; LIQUEFACTION; PALEOSEISMICITY;

MISSISSIPPI EMBAYMENT; NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 4243146301     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120030130     Document Type: Article

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