Submarine landslides of the Southern California Borderland

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 454, Issue , 2009, Pages 251-269

  Lee, Homa J ^a   Greene, H Gary ^b   Edwards, Brian D ^a   Fisher, Michael A ^a   Normark, William R ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b MOSS LANDING MARINE LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; EARTHQUAKES; SONAR; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SUBMARINES; SURVEYS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

DEBRIS AVALANCHES; FLUID PRESSURES; LATERAL DIMENSION; RECURRENCE INTERVALS; SANTA BARBARA CHANNELS; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES;

LANDSLIDES;

DEBRIS AVALANCHE; MUDFLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SLOPE FAILURE; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDE; SWATH BATHYMETRY; WAVE RUNUP;

CALIFORNIA; PALOS VERDES PENINSULA; SAN PEDRO CHANNEL; SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 75149180485     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2454(4.3)     Document Type: Article

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