Near-field response to transpression along the southern San Andreas fault, based on exhumation of the northern San Gabriel Mountains, southern California

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Buscher, Jamie T ^a   Spotila, James A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; OROGENY; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; TRANSPRESSION; UPLIFT;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37549033859     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006TC002017     Document Type: Article

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