Paleoseismicity of the southern end of the cascadia infduction zone, northwestern California

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1059-1078

  Valentine, David W ^a   Keller, Edward A ^d   Carver, Gary ^b   Li, Wen Hao ^c   Manhart, Christine ^e   Simms, Alexander R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Environmental Services and Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CASCADIA; GREAT EARTHQUAKE; LOCAL STRUCTURE; MACROFOSSILS; MICROFOSSILS; PALEOSEISMICITY; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SEISMIC HAZARDS; WASHINGTON;

LITHOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

EARTHQUAKES;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE EVENT; PALEOSEISMICITY; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC HAZARD; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

CALIFORNIA; CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862185118     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110103     Document Type: Article

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