Late Cenozoic history and slip rates of the Fish Lake Valley, Emigrant Peak, and Deep Springs fault zones, Nevada and California

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 280-299

  Reheis, Marith C ^a   Sawyer, Thomas L ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; LAKES; LANDFORMS; STRATIGRAPHY;

EARLY PLEISTOCENE; EASTERN CALIFORNIA; EXTENSIONAL FAULTING; LATE PLEISTOCENE; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATES; STRATIGRAPHIC MARKERS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION; BASIN AND RANGE; FISH LAKE VALLEY; NORTH AMERICAN; TECTONIC MODELS;

FAULT SLIPS;

CENOZOIC; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; MIOCENE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE TECTONICS; PLEISTOCENE; SHEAR ZONE; SLIP RATE; CAINOZOIC; FAULT SLIP; PLATE BOUNDARY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; CALIFORNIA; CANADA; DEATH VALLEY; DEVON ISLAND; FISH LAKE; FURNACE CREEK; NUNAVUT; QUEEN ELIZABETH ISLANDS; UNITED STATES; WALKER LANE; NEVADA; USA;

EID: 0030987684     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0280:LCHASR>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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