Basin geometry and cumulative offsets in the Eastern Transverse Ranges, southern California: Implications for transrotational deformation along the San Andreas fault system

Geosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-22

  Langenheim, V E ^a   Powell, R E ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; PALEOMAGNETISM; SAN ANDREAS FAULT;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; TRANSVERSE RANGES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 61349129192     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00177.1     Document Type: Article

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