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George Plafker
Researcher at United States Geological Survey
Publications - 108
Citations - 6727
George Plafker is an academic researcher from United States Geological Survey. The author has contributed to research in topics: Terrane & Thrust fault. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 107 publications receiving 6514 citations.
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Mechanism of the Chilean Earthquakes of May 21 and 22, 1960
George Plafker,James C. Savage +1 more
TL;DR: The Chile earthquake sequence of May 21-22, 1960, was accompanied by linear zones of tectonic warping, including both uplift and subsidence relative to sea level.
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Alaskan Earthquake of 1964 and Chilean Earthquake of 1960: Implications for Arc Tectonics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors deduced a thrust-fault mechanism for both the Alaskan and Chile earthquakes, which is consistent with the concept that the sectors of the Pacific rim in which they occurred are major zones of convergence along which the oceanic plates progressively underthrust the less mobile America plate.
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The 2002 Denali fault earthquake, Alaska: a large magnitude, slip-partitioned event.
Donna Eberhart-Phillips,Peter J. Haeussler,Jeffrey T. Freymueller,Arthur Frankel,Charles M. Rubin,Patricia A. Craw,Natalia A. Ratchkovski,Greg Anderson,Gary A. Carver,Anthony J. Crone,Timothy E. Dawson,Hilary J. Fletcher,Roger A. Hansen,Edwin L. Harp,Ruth A. Harris,David P. Hill,Sigrún Hreinsdóttir,Randall W. Jibson,Lucile M. Jones,Robert E. Kayen,David K. Keefer,Christopher F. Larsen,Seth C. Moran,Stephen F. Personius,George Plafker,Brian L. Sherrod,Kerry Sieh,Nicholas Sitar,Wesley K. Wallace +28 more
TL;DR: The 7.9 Denali fault earthquake on 3 November 2002 was associated with 340 kilometers of surface rupture and was the largest strike-slip earthquake in North America in almost 150 years as mentioned in this paper.
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Bedrock geology and tectonic evolution of the Wrangellia, Peninsular, and Chugach Terranes along the Trans‐Alaska Crustal Transect in the Chugach Mountains and Southern Copper River Basin, Alaska
TL;DR: The Trans-Alaskan Crustal Transect in the southern Copper River Basin and Chugach Mountains traverses the margins of the Peninsular and Wrangellia terranes, and the adjacent accretionary oceanic units of the ChUGach terrane to the south as discussed by the authors.