Paleoseismic history of the fallen leaf segment of the west tahoe-dollar point fault reconstructed from slide deposits in the lake tahoe basin, California-Nevada

Geosphere

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1065-1090

  Maloney, Jillian M ^a   Noble, Paula J ^b   Driscoll, Neal W ^a   Kent, Graham M ^c   Smith, Shane B ^b   Schmauder, Gretchen C ^c   Babcock, Jeffrey M ^a   Baskin, Robert L ^d   Karlin, Robert ^b   Kell, Annie M ^c   Seitz, Gordon G ^e   Zimmerman, Susan ^f   Kleppe, John A ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g Reno   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE RECURRENCE; EARTHQUAKE TRIGGER; FAULT; FAULT GEOMETRY; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; PALEOSEISMICITY;

CALIFORNIA; LAKE TAHOE BASIN; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881526763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00877.1     Document Type: Article

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