Late Neogene basin history at honey lake, northeastern California: Implications for regional tectonics at 3 to 4 Ma

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 447, Issue , 2009, Pages 83-100

  Trexler, J H ^a   Park, H M ^a,b   Cashman, P H ^a   Mass, K B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c BLACK AND VEATCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Eastern Sierra Nevada; Neogene; Strike slip tectonics; Walker Lane

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIPS; FOOD PRODUCTS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

CALIFORNIA; EASTERN SIERRA NEVADUM; LAKE BASINS; LATE NEOGENE; NEO GENES; REGIONAL TECTONICS; SIERRA NEVADA; STRIKE-SLIP TECTONICS; TEPHRAS; WALKER LANE;

LAKES;

ANTICLINE; BASIN EVOLUTION; DEPOSITION; EXHUMATION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; NEOGENE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TEPHRA; THRUST FAULT; TRIPLE JUNCTION; UPLIFT;

CALIFORNIA; HONEY LAKE; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES; WALKER LANE;

EID: 75449092619     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2447(06)     Document Type: Article

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