Range-Bounding normal fault of Smith Valley, Nevada: Limits on age of last surface-rupture earthquake and late Pleistocene rate of displacement

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1431-1437

  Wesnousky, Steven G ^a   Caffee, Marc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79957888630     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120100238     Document Type: Note

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