Neogene evolution of the Indian Wells Valley, east-central California

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 195, Issue , 2002, Pages 199-228

  Monastero, Francis C ^a   Walker, J Douglas ^b   Katzenstein, Allan M ^a   Sabin, Andrew E ^c  

^a NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c Innovative Technical Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIPS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

NEOGENE EVOLUTION; NORMAL FAULTING; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; STRUCTURAL SETTING; TECTONIC CHANGES; TERRIGENOUS SEDIMENT; VOLCANICLASTICS;

LANDFORMS;

FAULT ZONE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MIOCENE; PALEOGENE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEDIMENTATION RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; UPLIFT;

CALIFORNIA; DEATH VALLEY; INDIANA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES; WELLS COUNTY [INDIANA];

EID: 84871336511     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-1195-9.199     Document Type: Article

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