Late Quaternary slip rate of the southern Elsinore fault, Southern California: Dating offset alluvial fans via 230Th/U on pedogenic carbonate

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Fletcher, Kathryn E K ^a,b   Rockwell, Thomas K ^c   Sharp, Warren D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; CARBONATE; DATING METHOD; PEDOGENESIS; PLATE BOUNDARY; QUATERNARY; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SLIP RATE; THORIUM ISOTOPE; URANIUM ISOTOPE;

CALIFORNIA; ELSINORE FAULT ZONE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955541125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JF001701     Document Type: Article

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