Jurassic rocks in Sonora, Mexico: Relations to the mojave-sonora megashear and its inferred northwestward extension

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 393, Issue , 2005, Pages 51-95

  Anderson, Thomas H ^a   Rodríguez Castañeda, José Luis ^b   Silver, Leon T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Jurassic; Megashear; Sinistral; Sonora; Transform

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CROPS; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DEFORMATION; FAULT SLIPS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; JURASSIC; MEGASHEAR; PROTEROZOIC BASEMENT; SINISTRAL; SONORA; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

BASEMENT ROCK; COMPRESSION; CONGLOMERATE; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; FAULT ZONE; FOLIATION; IGNEOUS PROVINCE; ISLAND ARC; MAGMATISM; MYLONITE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; OPHIOLITE; OXFORDIAN; PLATE TECTONICS; PLUTON; PROTEROZOIC; PULL APART BASIN; RIFTING; SHEAR; SUBDUCTION; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY; THRUST FAULT; TRANSFORM FAULT; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

ARIZONA; BEAR MOUNTAIN; CALIFORNIA; CENTRAL VALLEY [CALIFORNIA]; COAST RANGES; MCCOY MOUNTAINS; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MOJAVE DESERT; PAPAGO PARK; PHOENIX; SONORA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 84874964262     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2393-0.51     Document Type: Article

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