Geometry, paleodrainage, and geologic rates from the Miocene Shadow Valley supradetachment basin, eastern Mojave Desert, California

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 303, Issue , 1996, Pages 85-105

  Friedmann, S Julio ^a,b   Davis, Gregory A ^a   Fowler, T Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; FAULTING; GEOMETRY; LANDFORMS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ROCKS; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY;

ACTIVE FAULTING; DETACHMENT FAULT; DETACHMENT FAULTING; DIFFERENT GEOMETRY; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; FACIES DISTRIBUTION; INITIAL DEPOSITIONS; LACUSTRINE DEPOSITS;

CATCHMENTS;

ALLUVIAL FAN; AVALANCHE; BASIN FILL; DEPOCENTER; DETACHMENT FAULT; FACIES; FAULTING; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MIOCENE; PLUTON; RECONSTRUCTION; ROCK AVALANCHE; SEDIMENTATION;

CALIFORNIA; MOJAVE DESERT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870829147     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2303-5.85     Document Type: Article

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