Provenance of the upper Miocene Modelo Formation and subsidence analysis of the Los Angeles basin, southern California: Implications for paleotectonic and paleogeographic reconstructions

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 885-899

  Rumelhart, Peter E ^a   Ingersoll, Raymond V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; PALEO-TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; PALEOGEOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; PROVENANCE ANALYSIS; SANDSTONE COMPOSITION; SEDIMENTARY FILLINGS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES BASIN; TRANSPRESSION; UPPER MIOCENE;

SUBSIDENCE;

BATHYAL ZONE; CRYSTALLINITY; MIOCENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PLAGIOCLASE; PROVENANCE; RECONSTRUCTION; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SUBSIDENCE; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TRANSPRESSION; TRANSTENSION;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES BASIN; SAN ANDREAS; SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; USA;

EID: 0031448857     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0885:POTUMM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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