The San Andreas and Walker Lane fault systems, western North America: Transpression, transtension, cumulative slip and the structural evolution of a major transform plate boundary

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1505-1512

  Wesnousky, Steven G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Neotectonics; Plate tectonics; San Andreas; Walker Lane

Indexed keywords

CUMULATIVE LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; NEOTECTONICS; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION;

DEFORMATION; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LANDFORMS; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

PLATE BOUNDARY; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 24344453370     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2005.01.015     Document Type: Article

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