Codependent histories of the San Andreas and San Jacinto fault zones from inversion of fault displacement rates

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 961-964

  Bennett, Richard A ^a   Friedrich, Anke M ^b   Furlong, Kevin P ^c  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental dynamics; Crustal deformation; Fault displacement rates; Lithospheric rheology

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT RATES; LITHOSPHERIC-SCALE DYNAMICS; RESTRAINING;

ACCELERATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; GEOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EARTHQUAKE EFFECTS;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SLIP RATE;

EID: 9144260603     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20806.1     Document Type: Article

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