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https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-1-1-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/gchron-1-1-2019
Research article
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18 Jul 2019
Research article |  | 18 Jul 2019

Chlorine-36∕beryllium-10 burial dating of alluvial fan sediments associated with the Mission Creek strand of the San Andreas Fault system, California, USA

Greg Balco, Kimberly Blisniuk, and Alan Hidy

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This article applies a new geochemical dating method to determine the age of sedimentary deposits useful in reconstructing slip rates on a major fault system.
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