Offshore sedimentary effects of the 12 January 2010 Haiti earthquake

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 723-726

  McHugh, Cecilia M ^a,b   Seeber, Leonardo ^b   Braudy, Nicole ^a   Cormier, Marie Helene ^c   Davis, Marcy B ^d   Diebold, John B ^b   Dieudonne, Nicole ^e   Douilly, Roby ^f   Gulick, Sean P S ^d   Hornbach, Matthew J ^d   Johnson, Harold E ^c   Mishkin, Katherine Ryan ^a   Sorlien, Christopher C ^g   Steckler, Michael S ^b   Symithe, Steeve J ^f   Templeton, John ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e Bureau of Mines and Energy   (Haïti)

^f Universite d'Etat de Haiti   (Haïti)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CONTINENTAL TRANSFORM; DEEPWATER; LONG WAVES; MAIN SHOCK; MARINE SOURCES; PALEOSEISMOLOGY; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEDIMENT PLUMES; SEDIMENTARY RECORDS; SEICHE OSCILLATIONS; SEISMIC RISK; TECTONIC EVENTS; TECTONIC SETTINGS; TERRIGENOUS SEDIMENT; TURBIDITY CURRENT; WATER COLUMNS; WATER DEPTH;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINES; TECTONICS; TURBIDITY;

EARTHQUAKES;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOSEISMICITY; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMIC DATA; TECTONIC SETTING; THRUST FAULT; TURBIDITE; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; HAITI; JAMAICA;

EID: 79960586109     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31815.1     Document Type: Article

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