The mojave-sonora megashear-field and analytical studies leading to the conception and evolution of the hypothesis

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 393, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-50

  Anderson, Thomas H ^a   Silver, Leon T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Jurassic; Megashear; Proterozoic; Sonora

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BUILDINGS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; GEOMAGNETISM; LEAD ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; URANIUM ALLOYS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES; ZIRCON;

EXTENSIONAL DEFORMATION; JURASSIC; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; MEGASHEAR; PRINCIPAL STRUCTURES; PROTEROZOIC; PROTEROZOIC BASEMENT; SONORA;

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS;

BASEMENT ROCK; DISPLACEMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; JURASSIC; PALEOMAGNETISM; PROTEROZOIC; SHEAR FLOW; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CALIFORNIA; DEATH VALLEY; GULF OF MEXICO; INYO MOUNTAINS; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SONORA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874995307     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2393-0.1     Document Type: Article

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