Continental boundaries of the Jalisco block and their influence in the Pliocene-Quaternary kinematics of western Mexico

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 921-924

  Rosas Elguera, José ^a   Ferrari, Luca ^b   Garduño Monroy, Victor Hugo ^c   Urrutia Fucugauchi, Jaime ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD MICHOACANA DE SAN NICOLÁS DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DEFORMATION; FAULTING;

ANCIENT STRUCTURES; CONTINENTAL RIFTING; CONVERGENCE RATES; EXTENSIONAL FAULTING; GEOPHYSICAL DATA; OBLIQUE SUBDUCTION; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RATE OF DEFORMATION; ME-XICO; PLIOCENE;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); FAULTING;

CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; DEFORMATION; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; KINEMATICS; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY; RIFTING; EXTENSIONAL FAULTING; INTRAPLATE DEFORMATION;

JALISCO BLOCK; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; JALISCO; MEXICO;

EID: 0030436676     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0921:CBOTJB>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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