The wister mud pot lineament: Southeastward extension or abandoned strand of the San Andreas fault?

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1720-1729

  Lynch, David K ^a   Hudnut, Kenneth W ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; FLUID MECHANICS; LANDFORMS; SURVEYS;

SALTON SEA; SAN ANDREAS FAULT;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; HYDROTHERMAL VENT; MUD; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; THERMAL SPRING;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SALTON SEA; SAN ANDREAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50549097243     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070252     Document Type: Article

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