Two post-glacial earthquakes on the saddle Mountain West fault, Southeastern Olympic Peninsula, Washington

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2894-2917

  Witter, Robert C ^a,b   Givler, Robert W ^a   Carson, Robert J ^c  

^a William Lettis and Associates Inc   (United States)

^b Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries   (United States)

^c WHITMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CHARCOAL; EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; LANDFORMS;

CARGILL; COMPONENT-BASED; CORDILLERAN ICE SHEETS; EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; FAULT SYSTEMS; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MOST RECENT EARTHQUAKES; OLYMPICS; PUGET SOUND LOWLANDS; SLIP RATES; THRUST FAULTS; VERTICAL SEPARATIONS; WALL DEFORMATIONS; WASHINGTON; WIDE ZONES;

FAULT DETECTION;

COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CORDILLERAN ICE SHEET; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SCARP; FOLDING; POSTGLACIAL; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THRUST FAULT; TRANSPRESSION;

MINERAL COUNTY [WEST VIRGINIA]; NORTH AMERICA; OLYMPIC PENINSULA; PUGET LOWLAND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; WEST VIRGINIA;

EID: 63049084900     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080127     Document Type: Article

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