Development of the Salt Spring Wash Basin in a reentrant in the hanging wall of the South Virgin-White Hills detachment fault, Lake Mead domain, northwest Arizona

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 463, Issue , 2010, Pages 61-85

  Blythe, Nathan ^a,c   Umhoefer, Paul J ^a   Duebendorfer, Ernest M ^a   McIntosh, William C ^b   Peters, Lisa ^b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c MARATHON OIL COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DEPOSITS; FISSION REACTIONS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAKES; LIME; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

APATITE FISSION TRACK THERMOCHRONOLOGY; BASIN ANALYSIS; DETACHMENT FAULT; FOOTWALL UPLIFT; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION RATES; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; VOLCANIC TUFFS;

FAULT SLIPS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HANGING WALL; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; SEDIMENTATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

ARIZONA; LAKE MEAD; UNITED STATES;

SILLAGO SIHAMA;

EID: 78650934323     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2463(04)     Document Type: Article

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