Fault-zone controls on the spatial distribution of slow-moving landslides

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 473-489

  Scheingross, Joel S ^a   Minchew, Brent M ^a   Mackey, Benjamin H ^a,c   Simons, Mark ^a   Lamb, Michael P ^a   Hensley, Scott ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; AIRBORNE INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; CATASTROPHIC LANDSLIDES; FAULT DAMAGE ZONE; LANDSCAPE EROSION; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; TECTONIC SETTINGS;

EARTHQUAKES; GEODETIC SATELLITES; LITHOLOGY; ROCKS; SEDIMENTS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

LANDSLIDES;

ACTIVE FAULT; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; CREEP; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE MECHANISM; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULT SLIP; FAULT ZONE; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HILLSLOPE; INTERFEROMETER; LANDSLIDE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEISMICITY; SLOPE STABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TERRAIN;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84875092449     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30719.1     Document Type: Article

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