Neogene tectonic evolution of the Sierra Nevada-Basin and Range transition zone at the latitude of Carson City, Nevada

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 447, Issue , 2009, Pages 171-188

  Cashman, Patricia H ^a   Trexler, James H ^a   Muntean, Thomas W ^a,c   Faulds, James E ^a   Louie, John N ^a,b   Oppliger, Gary L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Basins; Neogene; Structure; Syntectonic; Walker Lane

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; FAULT SLIPS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BASIN; BASIN AND RANGE; FAULT SYSTEM; NEO GENES; NORMAL FAULTS; SIERRA NEVADA; SYNTECTONIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSITION ZONES; WALKER LANE;

DEPOSITION;

CRYSTALLINE ROCK; FAULTING; GRABEN; LATITUDE; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; NORMAL FAULT; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSITION ZONE;

CALIFORNIA; CARSON CITY; CARSON RANGE; NEVADA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES; WALKER LANE;

EID: 75449095843     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2447(10)     Document Type: Article

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