Description and kinematics of the SE Loreto basin fault array, Baja California Sur, Mexico: A positive field test of oblique-rift models

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 595-614

  Umhoefer, Paul J ^a   Stone, K A ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; KINEMATICS; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; STRAIN;

DEXTRAL NORMAL SLIP; DEXTRAL SLIP; DIPPING NORMAL FAULTS; FAULT ARRAY; NORMAL SLIP; OBLIQUE RIFT MODELS; OBLIQUE RIFTING; STRAIN ANALYSIS; STRIKING FAULTS;

TECTONICS;

FAULT ARRAY; FAULT ZONES; FIELD TEST; KINEMATICS; NORMAL FAULT; OBLIQUE RIFTING; OBLIQUE-RIFT MODELS; TRANSFER ZONE;

MEXICO, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR, LORETE BASIN; MEXICO, BAJA CALIFORNIA SUR, LORETO BASIN;

EID: 0029668448     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(96)80027-7     Document Type: Article

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