Crustal structure of the ancestral northwestern California forearc region from seismic reflection imaging: Implications for convergent margin tectonics

Tectonophysics

Volumn 392, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 219-240

  Unruh, Jeffrey ^a   O'Connell, Daniel ^b   Block, Lisa V ^b  

^a William Lettis and Associates Inc   (United States)

^b U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind thrust fault; Convergent margin; Crustal structure; Fold and thrust belt; Fore arc basin; Neotectonics; Sacramento Basin; Seismic reflection imaging; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FOREARC BASIN; MESOZOIC; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SURVEY;

CALIFORNIA; COAST RANGES; NORTH AMERICA; SACRAMENTO VALLEY; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 11344293809     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2004.04.018     Document Type: Article

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