Sediment pore-fluid overpressuring and its effect on deformation at the toe of the cascadia accretionary prism from seismic velocities

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 96, Issue , 1996, Pages 57-64

  Cochrane, Guy R ^a   Lee, Homa J ^a   Moore, J C ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84856753023     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM096p0057     Document Type: Chapter

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