Stateline fault system: A new component of the Miocene-Quaternary Eastern California shear zone

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 1337-1346

  Guest, Bernard ^a,b   Niemi, Nathan ^a,c   Wernicke, Brian ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

And slip rate discrepancy; Eastern California shear zone; Fault offset; Fault slip rate; Stateline fault; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GEODESY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

FAULT OFFSET; FAULT SLIP RATE; GEOLOGIC SLIP RATES; MIOCENE-QUATERNARY SHEAR ZONE; STATELINE FAULT SYSTEM;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

FAULT; GEODESY; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; MIOCENE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; QUATERNARY; SHEAR ZONE; SLIP RATE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

CALIFORNIA; DEATH VALLEY; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PROSOPIS; SANDFLY FEVER SICILIAN VIRUS;

EID: 84874998352     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(2007)119[1337:sfsanc]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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