Strike-slip tectonics and thermochronology of northern New Mexico: A field guide to critical exposures in the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains

GSA Field Guides

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages 15-40

  Erslev, Eric A ^a   Fankhauser, Seth D ^a   Heizler, Matthew T ^b   Sanders, Robert E ^b   Cather, Steven M ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Laramide; New Mexico; Picuris Pecos; Reactivation; Strike slip faulting; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; SEPARATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

LARAMIDE; NEW MEXICO; PICURIS-PECOS; REACTIVATION; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

EID: 33645325839     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-0005-1.15     Document Type: Article

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