The poverty hills, owens valley, California - Transpressional uplift or ancient landslide deposit?

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 301-314

  Bishop, Kim M ^a   Clements, Steve ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SCS ENGINEERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Landslide; Owens valley; Owens valley fault; Poverty hills; Rock avalanche transpression

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; LANDSLIDES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROCK MECHANICS;

CATACLASITE; DEPOSITION; DIP-SLIP FAULT; EMPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; GRABEN; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; LANDSLIDE; PLUTONIC ROCK; ROCK AVALANCHE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SOURCE ROCK; TRANSPRESSION; UPLIFT;

CALIFORNIA; INYO MOUNTAINS; NORTH AMERICA; OWENS VALLEY; POVERTY HILLS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34248677099     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.12.4.301     Document Type: Article

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