Two-phase westward encroachment of Basin and range extension into the northern Sierra Nevada

Tectonics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 2-1-2-10

  Surpless, Benjamin E ^a   Stockli, Daniel F ^a   Dumitru, Trevor A ^a   Miller, Elizabeth L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basin and Range; Extension; Fission track; Geochronology; Sierra Nevada; Structure

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; FISSION TRACK DATING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TERTIARY; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036093205     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000TC001257     Document Type: Article

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