Late Miocene to Pliocene synextensional deposition in faultbounded basins within the upper plate of the western Silver Peak-Lone Mountain extensional complex, west-central Nevada

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 447, Issue , 2009, Pages 275-312

  Oldow, John S ^a   Elias, Elizabeth A ^b   Ferranti, Luigi ^c   McClelland, William C ^d   McIntosh, William C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Central Walker Lane; Extensional core complex; Extensional exhumation and deposition; Extensional stepover; Synextensional deposition

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; FAULTING; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

BASAL DETACHMENT; CORE COMPLEX; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; EXTENSIONAL STEPOVER; THREE DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY; TRANSCURRENT FAULTS; VOLCANIC SUCCESSIONS; WALKER LANE;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

BASIN EVOLUTION; CARBONATE ROCK; CLASTIC ROCK; DEPOSITION; DETACHMENT FAULT; DISPLACEMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOLD; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; PLIOCENE; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT; THRUST FAULT; VOLCANIC ROCK;

CALIFORNIA; FURNACE CREEK; GREAT BASIN; NEVADA; UNITED STATES; WALKER LANE;

PSATHYROTES;

EID: 75449118272     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2447(14)     Document Type: Article

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