Integration of tectonic, sedimentary, and geohydrologic processes leading to a small-scale extension model for the Mormon Mountains area north of Lake Mead, Lincoln County, Nevada

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 463, Issue , 2010, Pages 395-426

  Anderson, R Ernest ^a   Felger, Tracey J ^a   Diehl, S F ^b   Page, W R ^b   Workman, J B ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; DEFORMATION; DEPOSITS; DISSOLUTION; DOMES; FLOW OF FLUIDS; LAKES; LANDFORMS; LANDSLIDES; LIME; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRAIN; STRATIGRAPHY; UNLOADING;

BASIN AND RANGE; CARBONATE SEDIMENTATIONS; DEBRIS AVALANCHE DEPOSITS; DEBRIS AVALANCHES; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXTENSION MODELS; LARGE DISPLACEMENTS; WAVEFORM PATTERNS;

FAULTING;

ASH FLOW; BASIN FILL; DEBRIS FLOW; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; DOME; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; HYDROLOGY; PLATE TECTONICS; TERTIARY; UPLIFT;

MORMON MOUNTAINS; NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650946609     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2463(18)     Document Type: Article

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