Late Holocene slip rate of the San Andreas fault and its accommodation by creep and moderate-magnitude earthquakes at Parkfield, California

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 243-246

  Toké, Nathan A ^a   Arrowsmith, J Ramón ^a   Rymer, Michael J ^b   Landgraf, Angela ^c   Haddad, David E ^a   Busch, Melanie ^a   Coyan, Joshua ^a   Hannah, Alexander ^d  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; FAR-FIELD; GEODETIC MEASUREMENTS; GEOLOGIC SLIP RATES; HOLOCENES; LATE HOLOCENE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SLIP RATES; SURFACE SLIPS;

EARTHQUAKES; STRATIGRAPHY;

CREEP;

CREEP; DEFORMATION; HOLOCENE; PALEOSEISMICITY; PARKFIELD EARTHQUAKE 2004; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SLIP RATE; STRATIGRAPHY;

CALIFORNIA; CARRIZO PLAIN; PARKFIELD; UNITED STATES;

CARRIZO;

EID: 79951696285     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31498.1     Document Type: Article

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