Learning to read fault-slip behavior from fault-zone structure

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 767-768

  Marone, Chris ^a   Richardson, Eliza ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROPERTY; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULT SLIP; FAULT ZONE; SEISMICITY; TECTONIC SETTING;

EID: 77955947381     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/focus082010.1     Document Type: Note

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