The Laurel-Convict fault, eastern Sierra Nevada, California: A Permo-Triassic left-lateral fault, not a Cretaceous intrabatholithic break

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 483-488

  Greene, David C ^a,c   Stevens, Calvin H ^b   Wise, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LEAD ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; LOWER PALEOZOIC; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; PALEOZOIC ROCKS; PERMO-TRIASSIC; SIERRA NEVADA , CALIFORNIA; SLIP DISPLACEMENTS; LATE TRIASSIC; LATERAL SHEAR;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

CRETACEOUS; CURVATURE; DIKE; DISPLACEMENT; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; FELSIC ROCK; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; PORPHYRY; LAUREL-CONVICT FAULT; PERMIAN; STRIKE SLIP; TRIASSIC;

CALIFORNIA; MINNESOTA; MORRISON COUNTY; OWENS VALLEY; UNITED STATES; SIERRA NEVADA; USA;

EID: 0030885861     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0483:TLCFES>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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