Late Paleozoic contractional and extensional deformation at Edna Mountain, Nevada

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 651-668

  Cashman, Patricia H ^a   Villa, Danielle E ^a   Taylor, Wanda J ^b   Davydov, Vladimir I ^c   Trexler, James H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^c BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; EROSION; IRON; LANDFORMS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; FAULT ORIENTATIONS; LATE PALEOZOIC; MISSISSIPPIANS; PENNSYLVANIANS; PERMO-TRIASSIC; WESTERN BOUNDARY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONGLOMERATE; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKENING; DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOLDING; HANGING WALL; NORMAL FAULT; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

CALIFORNIA; NEVADA; SONOMA COUNTY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951489257     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30247.1     Document Type: Article

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