Evidence for post-early Miocene initiation of movement on the Garlock fault from offset of the Cudahy Camp Formation, east-central California

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 247-250

  Monastero, F C ^a   Sabin, A E ^a   Walker, J D ^b  

^a NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

MIDDLE MIOCENE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATES; PALEOCURRENTS; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SPECIFIC LOCATION; STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES; VOLCANIC FIELD; VOLCANIC TUFFS; CALIFORNIA; EARLY MIOCENE;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

CLAST; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; VOLCANIC ROCK; FAULT SLIP; PALAEOCURRENT; PROVENANCE; TECTONICS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES; EAGLE CRAGS VOLCANIC FIELD; EL PASO BASIN; USA;

EID: 0030839685     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0247:EFPEMI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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