Present-day motion of the Sierra Nevada block and some tectonic implications for the Basin and Range province, North American Cordillera

Tectonics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-24

  Dixon, Timothy H ^a   Miller, Meghan ^b   Farina, Frederic ^a   Wang, Hongzhi ^a   Johnson, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LANDFORMS; TECTONICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

DATA UNCERTAINTY; EASTERN CALIFORNIA; FISH LAKE VALLEY; KINEMATIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; RIGID BLOCK MODEL; SURFACE VELOCITY; TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS; VISCOELASTIC COUPLING;

SHEAR FLOW;

EID: 18744377540     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998TC001088     Document Type: Article

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