Early Jurassic deformation in the Pine Forest Range, northwest Nevada, and implications for Cordilleran tectonics

Tectonics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 566-583

  Wyld, Sandra J ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; JURASSIC; METAMORPHISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONICS;

USA, NEVADA, BLACK ROCK DESERT, PINE FOREST RANGE;

EID: 0030468606     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95TC03693     Document Type: Article

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