Oligo-Miocene extensional tectonics and fluid flow across the Northern Snake Range detachment system, Nevada

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Gébelin, Aude ^a,b   Mulch, Andreas ^a,b,c   Teyssier, Christian ^d   Heizler, Matt ^e   Vennemann, Torsten ^f   Seaton, Nicholas C A ^d  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUIDS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; MICA; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

COMBINED EFFECT; DETACHMENT FAULTING; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE EXCHANGE; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; ISOTOPE EXCHANGE; ISOTOPIC DATA; LATE OLIGOCENE; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; METEORIC FLUIDS; MYLONITES; MYLONITIZATION; VOLUME DIFFUSION; WHITE MICA;

FLOW OF FLUIDS;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; FLUID FLOW; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; MIOCENE; MYLONITE; OLIGOCENE; QUARTZITE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

NEVADA; SNAKE RANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80054768886     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010TC002797     Document Type: Article

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