Tectonic setting of the glance conglomerate along the sawmill canyon fault zone, southern Arizona: A sequence analysis of an intra-arc strike-slip basin

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 393, Issue , 2005, Pages 377-400

  Bassett, Kari N ^a   Busby, Cathy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bisbee basin; Glance conglomerate; Intra arc basin; Sequence stratigraphy; Strike slip basin; Volcanology

Indexed keywords

SAWING; SAWMILLS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; SUBSIDENCE; VOLCANOES; WOOD PRODUCTS;

BISBEE BASIN; GLANCE CONGLOMERATE; INTRA-ARC BASIN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE- SLIP BASIN; VOLCANOLOGY;

FAULT SLIPS;

BACKARC BASIN; BASIN FILL; CONGLOMERATE; CONTINENTAL ARC; FAULT ZONE; LITHOFACIES; PALEOLATITUDE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING; UNCONFORMITY; UPLIFT; VOLCANOLOGY;

ARIZONA; BISBEE; SANTA RITA MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548315395     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2393-0.377     Document Type: Article

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