Constraints on timing and displacement of multistage shearing in the Norumbega fault system, eastern Maine

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 331, Issue , 1999, Pages 179-194

  Ludman, Allan ^a,b   Lanzirotti, Antonio ^c   Lux, Daniel ^d   Wang, Chunzeng ^a,e  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^e GUILIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTLES; LAKES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

DEXTRAL OFFSETS; HIGH-STRAIN ZONES; MIDDLE DEVONIAN; NORUMBEGA FAULT SYSTEMS; PENNSYLVANIANS; SCALE STRUCTURES; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; VERTICAL MOTIONS;

FAULT SLIPS;

ALLEGHANIAN OROGENY; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DIP-SLIP FAULT; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OROGENIC BELT; SHEAR STRENGTH; SILURIAN; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

MAINE; NORUMBEGA FAULT ZONE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870904989     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2331-0.179     Document Type: Article

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