Deep burial of the footwall of the northern Snake Range decollement, Nevada

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-51

  Lewis, Claudia J ^a,e   Wernicke, Brian P ^b   Selverstone, Jane ^c   Bartley, John M ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; BIOTITE; FELDSPAR; GARNETS; IRON ALLOYS; MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; AMPHIBOLITE-FACIES METAMORPHISM; BRITTLE-DUCTILE TRANSITION ZONE; CRYSTAL PLASTIC DEFORMATIONS; METAMORPHIC GRADE; MONOTONIC DECREASE; MULTIPLE DOMAINS; TEMPERATURE DATA;

MICA;

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); DECOLLEMENT; FOOTWALL; SHEAR ZONE;

NEVADA; SNAKE RANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879878979     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<0039:DBOTFO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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