Anthropogenic subsidence in the Mexicali Valley, Baja California, Mexico, and slip on the Saltillo fault

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1515-1524

  Glowacka, E ^a   Sarychikhina, O ^a   Suarez F ^a   Nava, F Alejandro ^a   Mellors, Robert ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerro Prieto; Creep events; Fault creep; Geothermal field; Subsidence modeling

Indexed keywords

CREEP; EARTHQUAKES; EXTRACTION; FAULT SLIPS; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; LANDFORMS; SUBSIDENCE;

CERRO PRIETO; CERRO PRIETO GEOTHERMAL FIELD; ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; FAULT CREEP; GEOTECHNICAL INSTRUMENTS; GEOTHERMAL ACTIVITY; NORTH AMERICAN PLATES; TECTONIC DEFORMATIONS;

TRANSFORM FAULTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CREEP; DATA INTERPRETATION; DEEP DRILLING; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PACIFIC PLATE; RUPTURE; SEISMICITY; SLIP; SUBSIDENCE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TECTONICS; TRANSFORM FAULT;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(PNN) MEXICO]; BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; CALIFORNIA; CERRO PRIETO; MEXICALI VALLEY; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SALTON TROUGH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955164689     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0137-y     Document Type: Article

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