The Chiwaukum Structural Low: Cenozoic shortening of the central Cascade Range, Washington State, USA

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 7-8, 2009, Pages 1135-1153

  Cheney, Eric S ^a   Hayman, N W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASCADE REGIONS; CENOZOIC; COLUMBIA RIVER BASALTS; CRUSTAL BLOCK; GEOLOGIC MAPPING; LATE EOCENE; MAP PATTERNS; MIOCENE; REVERSE FAULTING; REVERSE FAULTS; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TESTING GROUNDS; TRANSTENSION; WASHINGTON STATE;

BASALT;

STEEL BRIDGES;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EOCENE; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOLDING; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; REVERSE FAULT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT; TRANSTENSION;

CASCADE RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69949102235     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26446.1     Document Type: Article

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