Tree Rings and Earthquakes

Advances in Global Change Research

Volumn 41, Issue , 2010, Pages 391-397

  Bekker, Matthew F ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault Scarp; Oceanic Crust; Plate Boundary; Tectonic Plate; Tree Ring

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871911397     PISSN: 15740919     EISSN: 22151621     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8736-2_36     Document Type: Chapter

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