Tertiary volcanic stratigraphy and paleotopography of the Diamond and Fort Sage Mountains: Constraining slip along the Honey Lake fault zone in the northern Walker Lane, northeastern California and western Nevada

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 447, Issue , 2009, Pages 101-131

  Faulds, James E ^a   Hinz, Nicholas H ^a   Henry, Christopher D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ash flow tuffs; Honey Lake fault; Nevada; Paleovalley; Strike slip faults; Walker Lane

Indexed keywords

DIAMONDS; FOOD PRODUCTS; GEODESY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LAKES; LANDFORMS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

ASH-FLOW TUFFS; NEVADA; NORTHERN WALKER LANES; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; PALEOVALLEY; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION; WALKER LANE;

FAULT SLIPS;

ASH FLOW; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; GEODESY; GPS; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; OLIGOCENE; PACIFIC PLATE; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; PLATE MOTION; SLIP RATE; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC ROTATION; TERTIARY; TUFF;

BLACK MOUNTAIN; CALIFORNIA; COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; HONEY LAKE; NEVADA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WALKER LANE;

EID: 75449085887     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2447(07)     Document Type: Article

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