Tests of detachment fault models using Miocene syntectonic strata, Colorado River extensional corridor, southeastern California and west-central Arizona

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 303, Issue , 1996, Pages 171-181

  Beratan, Kathi K ^a   Nielson, Jane E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DEPOSITION; ISOTOPES; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRATIGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

CRUSTAL EXTENSION; CRUSTAL MATERIALS; DETACHMENT FAULTING; GEOMETRIC RELATIONS; ISOSTATIC REBOUND; LOWER CRUSTAL FLOWS; MIOCENE DEPOSITS; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION;

FAULT SLIPS;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; DEFORMATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; FAULTING; MIOCENE; MYLONITE; SHEAR ZONE; TOPOGRAPHY; UNROOFING; VOLCANISM;

ARIZONA; COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870792591     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2303-5.171     Document Type: Article

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