Cenozoic basin extension beneath Goshute Valley, Nevada

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 303, Issue , 1996, Pages 15-26

  Strecker, Uwe ^a   Smithson, Scott B ^a   Steidtmann, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE;

ANALYSIS OF SEISMIC FACIES; BASIN EVOLUTION; EASTERN BASINS; HIGH RESOLUTION SEISMIC; SEDIMENT DISPERSAL; SEISMIC FACIES; SEISMIC SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY;

SEISMOLOGY;

CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; FACIES ANALYSIS; FOOTWALL; LISTRIC FAULT; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; SEISMIC REFLECTION;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870811173     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2303-5.15     Document Type: Article

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