Shallow seismic reflection investigations of neotectonic activity in the Lower Mississippi Valley

1998 SEG Annual Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages

  Harris, James B ^a   Berman, Seth A ^b   Beard, William C ^a   Street, Ron L ^c   Cox, Randel T ^d  

^a MILLSAPS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Mississippi Office of Geology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^d ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FAULTING; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; SEISMIC WAVES; SHEAR FLOW; SHEAR WAVES;

FAULT PROPAGATION FOLDING; REFLECTION DATA; REVERSE FAULTING; SEISMIC REFLECTION METHOD; SHALLOW SEISMIC; STRUCTURAL DEFORMATION; STRUCTURAL STYLES; SURFACE DEFORMATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

EID: 84873226017     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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