Temporal variations in extension rate on the Lone Mountain fault and strain distribution in the eastern California shear zone-Walker Lane

Geosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 917-936

  Hoeft, Jeffrey S ^a   Frankel, Kurt L ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GPS; NORMAL FAULT; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLEISTOCENE; STRAIN RATE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES; WALKER LANE;

EID: 79251589088     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00603.1     Document Type: Article

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