Translation of terranes: Lessons from central Baja California, Mexico

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1007-1010

  Umhoefer, Paul J ^a   Dorsey, Rebecca J ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

CONTINENTAL BLOCKS; FAULT ORIENTATIONS; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MODERN ANALOGUES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PRESERVATION POTENTIAL; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING;

FAULT SLIPS;

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; NORMAL FAULT; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; RIFT ZONE; SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRANE; ACCRETION; CONTINENTAL BLOCK; NEOGENE;

BAJA CALIFORNIA [(STT) MEXICO]; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PACIFIC OCEAN; BAJA CALIFORNIA; MEXICO;

EID: 0031420777     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<1007:TOTLFC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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