The Mud Hills, Mojave Desert, California: Structure, stratigraphy, and sedimentology of a rapidly extended terrane

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 303, Issue , 1996, Pages 61-84

  Ingersoll, Raymond V ^a   Devaney, Kathleen A ^b   Geslin, Jeffrey K ^c   Cavazza, William ^d   Diamond, David S ^e   Heins, William A ^f,j   Jagiello, Keith J ^b   Marsaglia, Kathleen M ^g   Paylor II, Earnest D ^h   Short, Paul F ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MS 509 ^*  (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^e Engineering Science   (United States)

^f VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ James M Montgomery Consulting Engineers Inc   (United States)

^j LEWIS CLARK STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRDS; GRANITE; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

CRUSTAL EXTENSION; CURSORY EXAMINATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; LISTRIC FAULT; ROCK AVALANCHE; STRATIGRAPHIC DIPS; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; VOLCANICLASTICS;

FAULT SLIPS;

BRECCIA; DETRITUS; GEOACCUMULATION; GRANODIORITE; MEGABRECCIA; MESOZOIC; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; PROVENANCE; RHYOLITE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TERRANE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

BARSTOW; CALIFORNIA; MOJAVE DESERT; MUD HILLS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870773378     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2303-5.61     Document Type: Article

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