Paleothermal structure of the point San Luis slab of central California: Effects of late cretaceous undrplating, out-of-sequence thrusting, and late Cenozoic dextral offset

Tectonics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 97-111

  Underwood, Michael B ^a   Laughland, Matthew M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; THERMAL STRUCTURE; THRUST; UNDERPLATING;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035062145     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999TC001153     Document Type: Article

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