Thermal evolution of Monte Blanco dome: Low-angle normal faulting during Gulf of California rifting and late Eocene denudation of the eastern Peninsular Ranges

Tectonics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 197-212

  Axen, Gary J ^a   Grove, Marty ^a   Stockli, Daniel ^b   Lovera, Oscar M ^a   Rothstein, David A ^a   Fletcher, John M ^c   Farley, Kenneth ^d   Abbott, Patrick L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENUDATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; DOME; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERTIARY; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

BAJA CALIFORNIA STATE; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MEXICO; PACIFIC OCEAN; PENINSULA RANGES;

EID: 0034451671     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999TC001123     Document Type: Article

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