A chronicle of Miocene extension near the Colorado Plateau-Basin and Range boundary, southern White Hills, northwestern Arizona: Paleogeographic and tectonic implications

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 463, Issue , 2010, Pages 87-119

  Faulds, James E ^a   Price, Linda M ^b,e   Snee, Lawrence W ^c   Gans, Phillip B ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

BASIN AND RANGE; BASIN DEVELOPMENT; COLORADO PLATEAU; COLORADO RIVER; EXTENDED PARTS; SHARP BOUNDARIES; TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS; TRANSITION ZONES;

FAULTING;

BASIN EVOLUTION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT ZONE; GRABEN; GROWTH FAULT; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; PALEOGEOGRAPHY;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; COLORADO PLATEAU; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650956133     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2463(05)     Document Type: Article

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