Evolution of a supradetachment extensional basin: The Lower Miocene Pickhandle basin, central Mojave Desert, California

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 303, Issue , 1996, Pages 107-126

  Fillmore, Robert P ^a,b   Walker, J Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; GRAVEL;

FLUVIAL DEPOSITS; GRANITIC COMPOSITION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSITS; LOWER MIOCENE; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; PALEOGEOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; ROCK AVALANCHE; TRANSFER FAULTS;

LANDFORMS;

CARBONATE; ESCARPMENT; HANGING WALL; MIOCENE; MUDFLOW; ROCK AVALANCHE; VOLCANISM;

CALIFORNIA; MOJAVE DESERT; MUD HILLS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870835723     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2303-5.107     Document Type: Article

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