Space-time patterns of late Cenozoic extension, vertical axis rotation, and volcanism in the Crater Flat basin, southwest Nevada

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 333, Issue , 1999, Pages 197-212

  Fridrich, C J ^a   Whitney, J W ^a   Hudson, M R ^a   Crowe, B M ^b  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DEFORMATION; FAULT SLIPS; LANDFORMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLOCKWISE ROTATION; CURRENT PATTERNS; EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL FAULTING; STRUCTURAL STYLES; TECTONIC ACTIVITY; TRANSTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION;

ROTATION;

CENOZOIC; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; MAGMA; MIOCENE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TECTONIC ROTATION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

CALIFORNIA; CRATER FLAT; DEATH VALLEY; GREAT BASIN; NEVADA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

EID: 84870874979     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2333-7.197     Document Type: Article

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