Development of Gregg Basin and the southwestern Grand Wash Trough during late-stage faulting in eastern Lake Mead, Arizona

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 463, Issue , 2010, Pages 221-241

  Umhoefer, Paul J ^a   Duebendorfer, Ernest M ^a   Blythe, Nathan ^a,d   Swaney, Zack A ^a,e   Beard, L Sue ^b   McIntosh, William C ^c  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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

^d MARATHON OIL COMPANY   (United States)

^e Phillips Research Center 224GB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISSION REACTIONS; LAKES; LIME; LIMESTONE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

APATITE FISSION TRACK AGES; FAULT ACTIVITY; FAULT SYSTEM; NORMAL FAULTS; PALEOZOIC ROCKS; PALEOZOIC STRATA; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; STRUCTURAL DATA;

FAULTING;

APATITE; BASIN EVOLUTION; CONGLOMERATE; EXHUMATION; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULTING; FISSION TRACK DATING; HANGING WALL; NORMAL FAULT; PROTEROZOIC;

LAKE MEAD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650932286     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2463(10)     Document Type: Article

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