Continuation of the San Andreas fault system into the upper mantle: Evidence from spinel peridotite xenoliths in the Coyote Lake basalt, central California

Tectonophysics

Volumn 429, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-20

  Titus, Sarah J ^a   Medaris Jr , L Gordon ^a   Wang, Herbert F ^a   Tikoff, Basil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Calaveras fault; Geothermometry; Lattice preferred orientation; Peridotite xenoliths; San Andreas fault; Seismic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

BASALT; PERIDOTITE; PETROLOGY; S-WAVE; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SPINEL; UPPER MANTLE; WAVE SPLITTING; XENOLITH;

CALIFORNIA; COYOTE LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CANIS LATRANS;

EID: 33751581754     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2006.07.004     Document Type: Article

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