Triggering of New Madrid seismicity by late-Pleistocene erosion

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7306, 2010, Pages 608-611

  Calais, E ^a   Freed, A M ^a   Van Arsdale, R ^b   Stein, S ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; EROSION; PALEOSEISMICITY; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLEISTOCENE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEISMIC ZONE;

ARTICLE; EARTHQUAKE; GEOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN;

MISSOURI; NEW MADRID; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955170178     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09258     Document Type: Article

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