A candidate for the Baja British Columbia fault system in the coast plutonic complex

GSA Today

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 1997, Pages

  Hollister, Lincoln S ^a   Andronicos, Christopher L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; TERTIARY;

CANADA, BRITISH COLUMBIA;

EID: 0031433336     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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