Tectonism of the southern Silver Peak Range: Paleomagnetic and geochronologic data bearing on the Neogene development of a regional extensional complex, central Walker Lane, Nevada

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 434, Issue , 2007, Pages 81-106

  Petronis, Michael S ^a,d   Geissman, John W ^a   Oldow, John S ^b   McIntosh, William C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Paleomagnetism; Silver Peak Range; Vertical axis rotation; Walker Lane

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; DEFORMATION; GEOMAGNETISM; GRANITE; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LEVEES; MAGNETIZATION; MICA; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ROTATION; SILVER COMPOUNDS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; VOLCANOES;

EXHUMATION; PALEOMAGNETISM; SILVER PEAKS; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION; WALKER LANE;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ANDESITE; CRETACEOUS; DISPLACEMENT; EXHUMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAFIC ROCK; NEOGENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

UNITED STATES; WALKER LANE;

EID: 75449086836     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2434(05)     Document Type: Article

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