Transpressional shearing and strike-slip partitioning in the Late Cretaceous Sierra Nevada magmatic arc, California

Tectonics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 442-459

  Tikoff, Basil ^a   De Saint Blanquat, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; MAGMATIC ARC; SHEAR ZONE; STRIKE SLIP; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TRANSPRESSION;

USA, CALIFORNIA, SIERRA NEVADA;

EID: 0031435249     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97TC00720     Document Type: Article

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