Late quaternary activity and seismic potential of the Santa Monica fault system, Los Angeles, California

The Santa Monica fault is a 40-km-long, oblique left-lateral reverse fault that extends through the densely urbanized northwestern Los Angeles, California, area and offshore parallel to the Malibu coast. The fault exhibits near-surface strain partitioning in paleoseismologic trenches, and has underg...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sieh, Kerry, Dolan, James F., Rockwell, Thomas K.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95271
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/8874