Depositional framework of mid-to late Miocene strata, Dumont Hills and southern margin Kingston Range: Implications for the tectonostratigraphic evolution of the southern Death Valley region

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 333, Issue , 1999, Pages 259-275

  Prave, Anthony R ^a   McMackin, Matthew R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; LIME; SANDSTONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

BASIN FORMATION; DEATH VALLEY; FAULT ZONE; LATE MIOCENE; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; MIOCENE; STUDY AREAS; TECTONIC INFLUENCE;

LANDFORMS;

DEPOCENTER; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FACIES ANALYSIS; GRANITE; GRANITOID; LIMESTONE; MIOCENE; MUDSTONE; OLD RED SANDSTONE; OUTCROP; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ROCK;

CALIFORNIA; DEATH VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870882527     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2333-7.259     Document Type: Article

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