Late Quaternary slip on the Santa Cruz Island fault, California

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 711-722

  Pinter, Nicholas ^a   Lueddecke, Susann B ^a   Keller, Edward A ^b   Simmons, Kathleen R ^c  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS;

EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS; LATE QUATERNARY; LATEST PLEISTOCENE; LINKED FAULTS; MEASUREMENTS OF; MOST RECENT EARTHQUAKES; RECURRENCE INTERVALS;

FAULT SLIPS;

EARTHQUAKE; FAULT; QUATERNARY; SLIP;

USA;

EID: 84879885510     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<0711:LQSOTS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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