New York-Alabama lineament: A buried right-slip fault bordering the Appalachians and mid-continent North America

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 571-574

  Steltenpohl, Mark G ^a   Zietz, Isidore ^b   Horton Jr , J Wright ^b   Daniels, David L ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROMAGNETIC DATA; ALABAMA; APPALACHIAN BASIN; APPALACHIANS; CAMBRIANS; CRUSTAL BOUNDARIES; DATA GAP; DATA SETS; EASTERN NORTH AMERICA; HOST ROCKS; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NEW YORK; RODINIA; SEISMIC ZONES; SPATIAL LOCATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TENNESSEE;

SEISMOLOGY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AEROMAGNETIC SURVEY; DISPLACEMENT; EARTHQUAKE; GNEISS; LINEAMENT; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING; RODINIA; SEISMIC ZONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ALABAMA; APPALACHIAN BASIN; APPALACHIANS; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955957792     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G30978.1     Document Type: Article

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