Major earthquakes recorded by Speleothems in Midwestern U.S. caves

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2147-2154

  Panno, Samuel V ^a   Lundstrom, Craig C ^b   Hackley, Keith C ^a   Curry, Brandon B ^a   Fouke, Bruce W ^b   Zhang, Zaofeng ^b  

^a ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HOLOCENES; ILLINOIS; MISSOURIS; NEAR-SURFACE; NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONES; PREHISTORIC EARTHQUAKES; SEISMIC EVENT; SEISMIC ZONES; WISCONSIN;

EARTHQUAKES; FORESTRY;

CAVES;

CAVE DEPOSIT; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HISTORICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC ZONE; SPELEOTHEM; STALAGMITE; WISCONSINAN;

MIDWEST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69549113195     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120080261     Document Type: Article

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