Evolution of the Rodgers Creek-Maacama right-lateral fault system and associated basins east of the northward-migrating Mendocino Triple Junction, northern California

Geosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 342-373

  McLaughlin, Robert J ^a   Sarna Wojcicki, Andrei M ^a   Wagner, David L ^b   Fleck, Robert J ^a   Langenheim, Victoria E ^a   Jachens, Robert C ^a   Clahan, Kevin ^b,d   Allen, James R ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Lettis Consultants International Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; EXTENSION; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT ZONE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PACIFIC PLATE; PULL APART BASIN; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SLAB; SLIP RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; THRUST FAULT; TRANSTENSION; TRIPLE JUNCTION; UPLIFT; VOLCANISM;

CALIFORNIA; CANADA; COAST RANGES; EAST BAY; MENDOCINO TRIPLE JUNCTION; NUNAVUT; PACIFIC OCEAN; SAN PABLO BAY; SOUTHAMPTON ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862617824     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00682.1     Document Type: Article

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