Cenozoic tilt domains in southwestern Montana: Interference among three generations of extensional fault systems

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 323, Issue , 1998, Pages 241-247

  Sears, James W ^a   Fritz, William J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; LATE OLIGOCENE; MIDDLE MIOCENE; OROGENIC BELTS; SECOND GENERATION; THIRD GENERATION; THREE GENERATIONS; YELLOWSTONE HOTSPOT;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

CENOZOIC; EOCENE; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; OROGENIC BELT; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TRANSFER ZONE; VOLCANIC ROCK;

IDAHO; MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870867364     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2323-X.241     Document Type: Article

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