Structural controls on the continent-ocean transition in the northern Gulf of California

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 105, Issue B7, 2000, Pages 16251-16269

  Nagy, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Stock, Joann M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; OCEAN-CONTINENT TRANSITION; TECTONICS;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034631639     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900402     Document Type: Article

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