Reactivation of the San Marcos fault during mid-to-late Tertiary extension, Chihuahua, Mexico

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 393, Issue , 2005, Pages 509-521

  Aranda Gómez, José Jorge ^a   Housh, Todd B ^b   Luhr, James F ^c   Henry, Christopher D ^d   Becker, Tim ^e   Chávez Cabello, Gabriel ^f  

^a INSTITUTO POTOSINO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y TECNOLÓGICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^e BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^f CENTRO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Basin and range; Intraplate volcanism; Transpression; Transtension

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FAULT SLIPS; MAPS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

BASIN AND RANGE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; INTRAPLATE VOLCANISM; LEFT-LATERAL MOVEMENTS; SATELLITE IMAGES; TOPOGRAPHIC MAP; TRANSPRESSION; TRANSTENSION;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

DEFORMATION; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; GRABEN; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; PLIOCENE; PULL APART BASIN; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNCLINE; TRANSTENSION; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; CHIHUAHUA; COAHUILA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MOJAVE DESERT; SAN MARCOS [CHIHUAHUA]; SONORA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 73849126048     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2393-0.509     Document Type: Article

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