Reactivation, trishear modeling, and folded basement in Laramide uplifts: Implications for the origins of intra-continental faults

GSA Today

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 4-10

  Bump, Alexander P ^a,b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT PROPAGATION; FAULTING; FOLDING; INVERSION TECTONICS; LARAMIDE OROGENY; REACTIVATION; UPLIFT;

(WEST); UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037366547     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/1052-5173(2003)013<0004:RTMAFB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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