Late Quaternary paleoseismites: Syndepositional features and section restoration used to indicate paleoseismicity and stress-field orientations during faulting along the main Lima Reservoir fault, southwestern Montana

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 359, Issue , 2002, Pages 29-47

  Bartholomew, Mervin J ^a   Stickney, Michael C ^b   Wilde, Edith M ^b   Dundas, Robert G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FAULTING; FOCAL MECHANISM; NORMAL FAULT; PALEOSEISMICITY; QUATERNARY; REVERSE FAULT; SEISMITE; STRESS FIELD;

MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870881152     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2359-0.29     Document Type: Review

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