Basement structure of the Appalachian foreland in West Virginia: Its style and effect on sedimentation

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 308, Issue , 1996, Pages 139-155

  Shumaker, R C ^a   Wilson, T H ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION;

APPALACHIAN BASIN; BASEMENT FAULTS; BASEMENT STRUCTURES; BLOCK BOUNDARIES; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; NORMAL DISPLACEMENT; PALEOZOIC SEDIMENTS;

BUILDINGS;

BASEMENT ROCK; CAMBRIAN; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FOREARC BASIN; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; ORDOVICIAN; SEDIMENTATION;

APPALACHIAN PLATEAU; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870810400     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2308-6.139     Document Type: Article

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