Basin and range extensional tectonics at the latitude of Las Vegas, Nevada

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 253, Issue , 1990, Pages 243-262

  Wernicke, Brian ^a   Axen, Gary J ^a   Snow, J Kent ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIPS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CENOZOIC EXTENSION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL; NORMAL FAULT SYSTEM; PACIFIC-NORTH AMERICA; POTENTIAL GRADIENTS; STRIKE SLIP FAULTING; TRANSFORM PLATE BOUNDARY;

TRANSFORM FAULTS;

BUOYANCY; CORDILLERA; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GRAVITY FLOW; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LITHOSPHERE; MESOZOIC; THRUST;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; CALIFORNIA; DEATH VALLEY; LAS VEGAS; NEVADA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879658854     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/SPE253-p243     Document Type: Article

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