Paleomagnetic evidence for counterclockwise rotation in a broad sinistral shear zone, Basin and Range province, southeastern Nevada and southwestern Utah

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 323, Issue , 1998, Pages 149-180

  Hudson, M R ^a   Rosenbaum, J G ^a   Gromme C S ^b   Scott, R B ^a   Rowley, P D ^c  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; LANDFORMS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

COLORADO PLATEAU; COUNTER CLOCKWISE ROTATION; DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION; MAGMATIC ACTIVITY; NORTH AMERICAN CRATONS; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PALEOMAGNETIC EVIDENCE; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION;

ROTATION;

ASH FLOW; BASIN ANALYSIS; CRATON; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; FLASH FLOOD; MAGMATISM; MIOCENE; PALEOMAGNETISM; ROTATION; SHEAR ZONE; TRANSFER ZONE; TRIASSIC;

DELMARVA PENINSULA; NEVADA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 84870950120     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2323-X.149     Document Type: Article

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