Kinematics of the southern Walker Lane Belt and motion of the Sierra Nevada block, California

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue B11, 1998, Pages 27033-27049

  Hearn, Elizabeth Harding ^a   Humphreys, Eugene D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; KINEMATICS; MODEL; TRANSFORM FAULT;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA BLOCK; UNITED STATES; WALKER LANE BELT;

EID: 0032455808     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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