From detachment to transtensional faulting: A model for the Lake Mead extensional domain based on new ages and correlation of subbasins

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 463, Issue , 2010, Pages 371-394

  Umhoefer, Paul J ^a   Beard, L Sue ^a   Martin, K Luke ^b,c   Blythe, Nathan ^b,d  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Oil Company ^*  (United States)

^d Oil Company   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISSION REACTIONS; GOLD DEPOSITS; LAKES; LANDFORMS; LANDSLIDES; LIME; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

APATITE FISSION TRACK AGES; BASIN DEVELOPMENT; DETACHMENT FAULT; DETACHMENT FAULTING; FAULT PATTERNS; SEDIMENTATION RATES; TECTONIC BOUNDARIES; TEMPORAL CHANGE;

FAULT SLIPS;

APATITE; BASIN EVOLUTION; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; FISSION TRACK DATING; FOOTWALL; SUBSIDENCE; TRANSTENSION;

LAKE MEAD; UNITED STATES;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 78650932920     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2463(17)     Document Type: Article

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