A high-resolution seismic CHIRP investigation of active normal faulting across Lake Tahoe Basin, California-Nevada

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 1089-1107

  Dingler, Jeffrey ^a,e   Kent, G ^a   Driscoll, N ^a   Babcock, J ^a   Harding, A ^a   Seitz, G ^b   Karlin, B ^c   Goldman, C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; BASIN AND RANGE; CALIFORNIA; CHIRP IMAGING; FAULT DIP; FAULT OFFSET; FAULT-SLIP RATES; HIGH RESOLUTION; HOLOCENE EARTHQUAKES; HOLOCENES; LAKE TAHOE; LAKE TAHOE BASIN; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MULTI-BEAM; WALKER LANE;

DEPOSITS; EARTHQUAKES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LAKES; OPTICAL RADAR; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

FAULT DETECTION;

ACTIVE FAULT; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT SLIP; GPS; HOLOCENE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NORMAL FAULT; SEISMIC METHOD; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

CALIFORNIA; LAKE TAHOE BASIN; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WALKER LANE;

EID: 69949093694     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26244.1     Document Type: Article

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