Rapid miocene slip on the Snake Range-Deep Creek Range fault system, east-central Nevada

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 886-905

  Miller, Elizabeth L ^a   Dumitru, Trevor A ^a   Brown, Roderick W ^b,d   Gans, Phillip B ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; DEPOSITS; FAULTING; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

APATITE FISSION TRACK AGES; BRITTLE-DUCTILE TRANSITION ZONE; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENTS; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; NORMAL FAULT SYSTEM; SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS; VERTICAL COMPONENT; ZIRCON FISSION TRACKS;

FISSION REACTIONS;

DATING METHOD; DECOLLEMENT; DETACHMENT FAULT; FAULT SLIP; MIOCENE;

NEVADA; SNAKE RANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032875893     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<0886:RMSOTS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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