Excavations in a playa along the 1992 rupture of the Emerson fault reveal evidence of two paleoseismic events, with only one large prehistoric rupture in the past 15 millennia. Accelerator mass spectrometer radiocarbon ages of charcoal from playa sediments and from faultscarp colluvium directly beneath the playa beds indicate that the last large prehistoric slip event occurred about 9000 ka. Tr...

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