Large-scale right-slip displacement on the East San Francisco Bay Region fault system, California: Implications for location of late Miocene to Pliocene Pacific plate boundary

Tectonics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-18

  McLaughlin, R J ^a   Sliter, W V ^a   Sorg, D H ^a   Russell, P C ^a   Sarna Wojcicki, A M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT OFFSET; MIOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLIOCENE; STRIKE SLIP FAULT; TRANSFORM FAULT;

USA, CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO BAY;

EID: 0029772034     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95TC02347     Document Type: Article

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