Norumbega fault zone: Part of an orogen-parallel strike-slip system, northern Appalachians

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 331, Issue , 1999, Pages 155-165

  Hubbard, Mary S ^a  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPALACHIAN OROGEN; FAULT GEOMETRY; LATE PALEOZOIC; NORTHERN APPALACHIANS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS; STRIKE SLIP SYSTEMS; TRANSCURRENT FAULTS;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

ACTIVE FAULT; DEVONIAN; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; GEOMETRY; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; SAN ANDREAS FAULT;

APPALACHIANS; CANADA; MAINE; NORUMBEGA FAULT ZONE; NOVA SCOTIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870890375     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2331-0.155     Document Type: Article

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