Coseismic slip on the southern Cascadia megathrust implied by tsunami deposits in an Oregon lake and earthquake-triggered marine turbidites

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Witter, Robert C ^a,b   Zhang, Yinglong ^c   Wang, Kelin ^d   Goldfinger, Chris ^e   Priest, George R ^a   Allan, Jonathan C ^a  

^a Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSEISMIC PROCESS; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; MARINE SEDIMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOSEISMICITY; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; SEISMOLOGY; SLIP; TSUNAMI; TURBIDITE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FAULT SLIP; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

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

EID: 84867496652     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JB009404     Document Type: Article

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