Excision and the original low dip of the Miocene-Pliocene Bannock detachment system, SE Idaho: Northern cousin of the Sevier Desert detachment?

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 334-353

  Carney, Stephanie M ^a   Janecke, Susanne U ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basin and Range province; Breakup; Detachment; Excision; Isostatic folding; Low angle normal fault

Indexed keywords

DESERT DETACHMENT SYSTEMS; FAULTS; GEOLOGIC MAPPING; HINTERLAND;

ALKALINITY; CATCHMENTS; DEFORMATION; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; LANDFORMS; MAPPING; ROCKS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS;

CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MIOCENE; PLIOCENE;

IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 15944411797     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25428.1     Document Type: Article

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