Late Miocene to Pliocene vertical-axis rotation attending development of the Silver Peak-Lone Mountain displacement transfer zone, west-central Nevada

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 447, Issue , 2009, Pages 215-253

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

^a NEW MEXICO HIGHLANDS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Basin and Range; Paleomagnetism; Rotation; Transtension; Walker Lane

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; DEFORMATION; GEOMAGNETISM; SILVER; VELOCITY;

BASIN AND RANGE; KINEMATIC EVOLUTION; PALEOMAGNETISM; STEADY STATE PROCESS; TRANSTENSION; TRANSTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION; WALKER LANE;

ROTATION;

ANDESITE; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; IGNIMBRITE; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLIOCENE; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC ROTATION; TRANSTENSION;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; CALIFORNIA; FURNACE CREEK; NEVADA; UNITED STATES; WALKER LANE;

CANDELARIA;

EID: 75449118478     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2447(12)     Document Type: Article

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