Pull-apart basins at releasing bends of the sinistral Late Jurassic Mojave-Sonora fault system

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 393, Issue , 2005, Pages 97-122

  Anderson, Thomas H ^a   Nourse, Jonathan A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Late jurassic; Pull apart; Sinistral; Sonora

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; SHEAR STRESS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

FAULT ORIENTATIONS; LATE JURASSIC; MAXIMUM PRINCIPAL STRESS; PULL-APART; REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION; SINISTRAL; SONORA; STRATIGRAPHIC AGE;

FAULT SLIPS;

CONGLOMERATE; CRATON; CRETACEOUS; DETACHMENT FAULT; JURASSIC; LARAMIDE OROGENY; MIOCENE; OVERPRINTING; PLUTON; PULL APART BASIN; REVERSE FAULT; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT;

ARIZONA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MOJAVE DESERT; NEW MEXICO; SONORA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874963455     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2393-0.97     Document Type: Article

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