Penetrative strain at shallow crustal levels: The role of pressure solution in accommodating regional shortening strain,Ventura basin, western Transverse Ranges, California

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 365, Issue , 2002, Pages 295-314

  Duebendorfer, Ernest M ^a   Meyer, Karin L ^a,b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Los Angeles County Public Works Dep   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN BOUNDARIES; RESTORATION;

BALANCED CROSS SECTIONS; BEDDING ORIENTATIONS; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; INSOLUBLE MATERIALS; LAYER PARALLEL SHORTENINGS; MANUAL TECHNIQUES; PRESSURE SOLUTION; STRUCTURAL LEVELS;

STRAIN;

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; GRAIN SIZE; PLIOCENE; STRAIN ANALYSIS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES; VENTURA BASIN;

EID: 84870860139     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2365-5.295     Document Type: Article

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