Deformation pattern around the conjoining strike-slip fault systems in the Basin and Range, southeast Nevada: the role of strike-slip faulting in basin formation and inversion

Tectonics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 344-359

  Çakir, Mehmet ^a   Aydin, Atilla ^a   Campagna, David J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; BASIN INVERSION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTING;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; NEVADA; USA;

EID: 0031722754     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98TC00562     Document Type: Article

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