Recent faulting in the Gulf of Santa Catalina: San Diego to Dana Point

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 454, Issue , 2009, Pages 291-315

  Ryan, Holly F ^a   Legg, Mark R ^b   Conrad, James E ^a   Sliter, Ray W ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Legg Geophysical   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; LANTHANUM; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; REFLECTION; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

CLOCKWISE ROTATION; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DETACHMENT SURFACES; MULTICHANNEL SEISMIC; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; U.S.-MEXICO BORDER; VERY HIGH RESOLUTION;

FAULT SLIPS;

BLOCK ROTATION; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DETACHMENT FAULT; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; OBLIQUE FAULT; QUATERNARY; REVERSE FAULT; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHELF BREAK; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THRUST FAULT;

CALIFORNIA; CHANNEL ISLANDS [CALIFORNIA]; DANA POINT; LA JOLLA; NEWPORT BEACH; PACIFIC OCEAN; PALOS VERDES PENINSULA; SAN DIEGO; SAN DIEGO TROUGH; SAN MATEO COUNTY; SANTA CATALINA ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EQUISETALES;

EID: 75149165648     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2454(4.5)     Document Type: Article

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