Kilometer-scale kinking of crystalline rocks in a transpressive convergent setting, central Sierra Nevada, California

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 817-831

  Pachell, Matthew A ^a   Evans, James P ^a   Taylor, W Lansing ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ANADARKO PETROLEUM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Faults; Kinks; Left lateral; Sierra Nevada; Transpressive

Indexed keywords

KINKING;

DEFORMATION; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS;

CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; DEFORMATION; FAULTING; LINEAMENT; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPRESSION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0042768513     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(2003)115<0817:KKOCRI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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