Paleoseismic and slip-rate observations along the Honey Lake fault zone, northeastern California, USA

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1730-1736

  Turner, R ^a,b   Koehler, R D ^a   Briggs, R W ^a,c   Wesnousky, Steven G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b William Lettis and Associates   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; LANDFORMS; SOIL CONSERVATION;

CALIFORNIA; CALIFORNIA , USA; LATERAL SHEAR; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTING; WALKER LANE;

STRATIGRAPHY;

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT ZONE; HOLOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TERRACE; TOPOGRAPHY;

CALIFORNIA; HONEY LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 50549097595     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120070090     Document Type: Article

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