Late Paleozoic dextral transpression in the crystalline core of the Pennsylvania reentrant

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 330, Issue , 1999, Pages 59-71

  Valentino, David W ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT OSWEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIONAL; CRYSTALLINE CORE; GREENSCHIST; LATE PALEOZOIC; PENNSYLVANIA; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; STRUCTURAL MODELS; TRANSPRESSION;

LANDFORMS;

CRYSTALLINITY; GREENSCHIST FACIES; METAMORPHIC FACIES; PALEOZOIC; PIEDMONT; SHEAR ZONE; TRANSPRESSION;

APPALACHIANS;

EID: 84870859037     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2330-2.59     Document Type: Article

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