Reconciliation of San Andreas slip discrepancy by a combination of interior basin and range extension and transrotation near the coast

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 663-665

  Dickinson, William R ^a   Wernicke, Brian P ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY;

APPARENT MOTION; BASIN AND RANGE; GLOBAL CORRELATION; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; MEASUREMENTS OF; NORTH AMERICAN PLATES; RANGE EXTENSIONS; SAN ANDREAS FAULT;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

COASTAL ZONE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT SLIP; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; NEOGENE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE TECTONICS; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEAFLOOR; SLIP RATE; EXTENSION; PLATE MOTION; TECTONIC ROTATION; TRANSFORM FAULT; TRANSROTATIONAL DEFORMATION;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES; USA;

EID: 0030831075     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0663:ROSASD>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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