Rates and timing of vertical-axis block rotations across the central Sierra Nevada-Walker Lane transition in the Bodie Hills, California/Nevada

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Rood, Dylan H ^a,b   Burbank, Douglas W ^a   Herman, Scott W ^a   Bogue, Scott ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

AVERAGE RATE; BRIDGEPORT; CALIFORNIA; CLOCKWISE ROTATION; CONFIDENCE LIMIT; LATE MIOCENE; MIDDLE MIOCENE; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PLIOCENE; ROTATION RATE; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TIME INTERVAL; TIME SPAN; TIME-SCALES; UPPER MIOCENE; WALKER LANE;

ROTATION;

BLOCK ROTATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; MIOCENE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PACIFIC PLATE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLIOCENE; SHEAR ZONE; TERTIARY; TRANSTENSION; VOLCANIC ROCK;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES; WALKER LANE;

EID: 80055020561     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010TC002754     Document Type: Article

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