Quaternary faulting in Queen Valley, California-Nevada: Implications for kinematics of fault-slip transfer in the Eastern California shear zone-Walker lane belt

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 599-614

  Lee, Jeffrey ^a   Garwood, Jason ^a,d   Stockli, Daniel F ^b   Gosse, John ^c  

^a CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Eastern California shear zone; Fault slip transfer; Normal faults; Strike slip faults; Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide geochronology; Thrust faults; Walker Lane belt

Indexed keywords

DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; KINEMATICS; LANDFORMS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

NORMAL FAULTS; SHEAR ZONE; SLIP TRANSFER; TERRESTRIAL COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; THRUST FAULTS; WALKER LANE;

FAULT SLIPS;

ALLUVIAL FAN; BLOCK ROTATION; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT SCARP; FAULT SLIP; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOLOCENE; KINEMATICS; PLEISTOCENE; QUATERNARY; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WHITE MOUNTAINS [CALIFORNIA-NEVADA];

CANIS LATRANS;

EID: 69949155745     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26352.1     Document Type: Article

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