Stratigraphy and age of the Lower Horse Spring Formation in the Longwell Ridges area, southern Nevada: Implications for tectonic interpretations

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 463, Issue , 2010, Pages 171-201

  Lamb, Melissa A ^a   Martin, K Luke ^b   Hickson, Thomas A ^a   Umhoefer, Paul J ^b   Eaton, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DEPOSITION; LAKES; MAPPING; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; VOLCANOES;

BOUNDING FAULTS; CENOZOIC EXTENSION; DEFORMATION HISTORY; FLUVIAL SETTINGS; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; REGIONAL TECTONICS; STRATIGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL STUDIES;

FAULT SLIPS;

BASIN FILL; CENOZOIC; DEFORMATION; FAULTING; FOLDING; LITHOFACIES; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

LAKE MEAD; NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 78650926101     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2463(08)     Document Type: Article

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