Basement-controlled transfer zones in an area of low-magnitude extension, eastern Basin and Range province, Trans-Pecos Texas

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 323, Issue , 1998, Pages 75-88

  Henry, Christopher D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BASEMENT STRUCTURES; BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK; BOUNDARY FAULTS; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; GRAVITY ANOMALIES; OBLIQUE MOTIONS; TRANSFER FAULTS; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION;

FAULT SLIPS;

EOCENE-OLIGOCENE BOUNDARY; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; GRABEN; GRAVITY ANOMALY; PALEOZOIC; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK; CHIHUAHUA [MEXICO]; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TEXAS; TRANS-PECOS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870872095     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2323-X.75     Document Type: Article

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