Three-stage evolution of the Los Angeles basin, southern California

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 593-596

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

CONVERGENT MARGIN; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES BASIN; MIDDLE MIOCENE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; STAGE MODELS; TRANSPRESSION;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; MIOCENE; TECTONIC ROTATION; TRANSFORM FAULT; TRANSPRESSION; TRANSTENSION;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032716656     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0593:TSEOTL>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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