Role of extrusion of the Rand and Sierra de Salinas schists in Late Cretaceous extension and rotation of the southern Sierra Nevada and vicinity

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Chapman, Alan D ^a   Kidder, Steven ^a   Saleeby, Jason B ^a   Ducea, Mihai N ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRUSION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ROTATION; TECTONICS;

CHANNEL BOUNDARIES; CLOCKWISE ROTATION; CRUSTAL EXTENSION; CRUSTAL LEVELS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; FLOW TYPE; GENERAL SHEAR; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; KINEMATIC DATA; LATE CRETACEOUS; PURE SHEAR; RETURN FLOW; SHEAR ZONE; SIERRA NEVADA; SIERRA NEVADA BATHOLITH; SIMPLE SHEAR; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; STRAIN ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS; UPPER PLATE; WESTWARD FLOW;

SHEAR FLOW;

BATHOLITH; CRETACEOUS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; NORMAL FAULT; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; QUARTZITE; SCHIST; STRAIN ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC ROTATION; TRENCH; UNDERPLATING; UPLIFT;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77957596604     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002597     Document Type: Article

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