Late Cenozoic sedimentation and volcanism during transtensional deformation in Wingate Wash and the Owlshead Mountains, Death Valley

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 73, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 177-219

  Luckow, Heather Golding ^a   Pavlis, Terry L ^a   Serpa, Laura F ^a   Guest, Bernard ^a   Wagner, David L ^b   Snee, Lawrence ^c   Hensley, Tabitha M ^d   Korjenkov, Andrey ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Institute of Seismology NAS KR   (Kyrgyzstan)

Author keywords

Argon geochronology; Death Valley structure; Owlshead Mountains; Tectonics; Transtension; Wingate Wash

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT; VOLCANISM;

CALIFORNIA; DEATH VALLEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 29144475391     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2005.07.013     Document Type: Article

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