Holocene earthquakes and late Pleistocene slip-rate estimates on the Wassuk range fault zone, Nevada

Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1884-1891

  Bormann, Jayne M ^a   Surpless, Benjamin E ^b   Caffee, Marc W ^c   Wesnousky, Steven G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84865048032     PISSN: 00371106     EISSN: 19433573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1785/0120110287     Document Type: Note

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