Late Miocene to Quaternary extension at the northern boundary of the Jalisco block, western Mexico: The Tepic-Zacoalco rift revised

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 334, Issue , 2000, Pages 41-63

  Ferrari, Luca ^a   Rosas Elguera, José ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; KINEMATICS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRATIGRAPHY;

GEOTHERMAL DRILLING; LISTRIC NORMAL FAULTS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPAL STRESS; STRATIGRAPHIC DATA; STRIKE-SLIP DEFORMATION; STRUCTURAL MAPPING; TECTONIC BOUNDARIES; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS;

FAULT SLIPS;

CINDER CONE; COCOS PLATE; DATA INVERSION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT; GRABEN; KINEMATICS; MIOCENE; NORMAL FAULT; PLATE BOUNDARY; QUATERNARY; RIFTING; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

AMECA; CEBORUCO; CHIHUAHUA [MEXICO]; EAST PACIFIC RISE; ICA; JALISCO; JALISCO BLOCK; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NAYARIT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PERU; SAN MARCOS [CHIHUAHUA]; SANTA ROSA ISLAND [ICA]; SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL; SIERRA MADRE [MEXICO]; TEPIC; TRANS-MEXICAN VOLCANIC BELT;

EID: 84870931842     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2334-5.41     Document Type: Article

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