Earthquake signals in tree-ring data from the New Madrid seismic zone and implications for paleoseismicity

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 515-518

  Van Arsdale, Roy B ^a   Stahle, David W ^b   Cleaveland, Malcolm K ^b   Guccione, Margaret J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; LAKES;

EARTHQUAKE EVENTS; GREAT EARTHQUAKE; GROWTH RESPONSE; GROWTH SUPPRESSIONS; NEW MADRID SEISMIC ZONES; PALEOSEISMICITY; TREE RING RECORDS; TREE-RING CHRONOLOGIES;

EARTHQUAKES;

DENDROCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; PALAEOSEISMICITY;

USA;

EID: 84879881794     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0515:ESITRD>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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