Prehistoric earthquakes on the Caribbean–South American plate boundary, Central Range fault, Trinidad

Geology - Tập 38 Số 8 - Trang 675-678 - 2010
C. S. Prentice1, John Weber2, C. J. Crosby1, Daniel Ragona3
1U.S. Geological Survey, 345, Middlefield Road, MS 977, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
2Department of Geology, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, Michigan 49401, USA
3Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California–San Diego, La Jolla, California 92121, USA

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