Testing the use of microfossils to reconstruct great earthquakes at cascadia

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1067-1070

  Engelhart, S E ^a   Horton, B P ^b   Nelson, A R ^c   Hawkes, A D ^d   Witter, R C ^c   Wang, K ^e   Wang, P L ^f   Vane, C H ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

^e Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^f NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADIA SUBDUCTION ZONE; COSEISMIC DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDES; EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; GREAT EARTHQUAKE; MICROFOSSILS; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; TRANSFER FUNCTION METHOD;

DATA HANDLING; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EARTHQUAKES;

COASTAL ZONE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DEFORMATION; EARTHQUAKE MAGNITUDE; EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE; FORAMINIFERA; MICROFOSSIL; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBSIDENCE; TIDAL FLAT;

COOS BAY; OREGON; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); UNITED STATES;

FORAMINIFERA;

EID: 84884513771     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34544.1     Document Type: Article

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