Reconnaissance study of late quaternary faulting along cerro GoDen fault zone, western Puerto Rico

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 385, Issue , 2005, Pages 115-137

  Mann, Paul ^a,f   Prentice, Carol S ^b   Hippolyte, Jean Claude ^c   Grindlay, Nancy R ^d   Abrams, Lewis J ^d   Laó Dávila, Daniel ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Arch; Earthquakes; Faults; Mona Passage; Puerto Rico

Indexed keywords

ARCHES; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKES; FAULTING; LANDFORMS; LANTHANUM; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PHOTOGRAPHY; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY;

ANGULAR UNCONFORMITY; EXTENSIONAL STRAIN; GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; MONA PASSAGE; PUERTO RICO; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURES;

FAULT SLIPS;

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; ARCH; ARCHING; BEDROCK; DEFORMATION; EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; KINEMATICS; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SHEAR; TERRACE;

MONA PASSAGE; PUERTO RICO;

EID: 73849099825     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2385-X.115     Document Type: Article

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