New core complex model for the South Virgin-White Hills detachment and extension in the eastern Lake Mead area, southern Nevada and northwestern Arizona

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 463, Issue , 2010, Pages 353-370

  Swaney, Zack A ^a   Duebendorfer, Ernest M ^a   Fitzgerald, Paul G ^b   McIntosh, William C ^c  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; FISSION REACTIONS; LAKES; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; COLORADO RIVER; CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; CRYSTALLINE CORE; DETACHMENT FAULT; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; STRUCTURAL LEVELS; TRAILING EDGES;

FAULT SLIPS;

APATITE; BASIN EVOLUTION; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FISSION TRACK DATING; FOOTWALL; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

LAKE MEAD; UNITED STATES;

SILLAGO SIHAMA;

EID: 78650953038     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2463(16)     Document Type: Article

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