Ridge Basin and San Gabriel fault in the Castaic Lowland, southern California

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 367, Issue , 2003, Pages 131-156

  Yeats, Robert S ^a   Stitt, Leonard T ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Shelter Now Afghanistan   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; LANDFORMS; MINTS; OIL FIELDS; ROCKS; SEPARATION;

BASEMENT ROCKS; FAULT STRIKE; HOLOCENE DEPOSITS; LATE MIOCENE; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN; QUATERNARY STRATA; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BRECCIA; DISPLACEMENT; FOLDING; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MIOCENE; OIL FIELD; OUTCROP; SEISMOGRAPH; SUBMARINE FAN; TURBIDITE;

CALIFORNIA; SAN GABRIEL MOUNTAINS; SOLEDAD BASIN; UNITED STATES; VENTURA BASIN;

EID: 84870908056     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2367-1.131     Document Type: Article

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