Regional characteristics, tilt domains, and extensional history of the late Cenozoic Basin and Range province, western North America

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 323, Issue , 1998, Pages 47-74

  Stewart, John H ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; ROCKS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

ACCOMMODATION ZONE; CENOZOIC EXTENSION; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS; REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL RELATIONS; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

FAULT SLIPS;

CENOZOIC; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CORE ANALYSIS; FAULT GEOMETRY; GRABEN; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; METAMORPHIC ROCK; PLATE TECTONICS; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TILT;

ARIZONA; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MOJAVE DESERT; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SIERRA MADRE ORIENTAL; SIERRA MADRE [MEXICO]; SONORA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870919949     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2323-X.47     Document Type: Article

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