Upper crustal structure and Neogene tectonic development of the California continental borderland

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 779-800

  Bohannon, Robert G ^a   Geist, Eric ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; DEFORMATION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMOLOGY;

CLOCKWISE ROTATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DETACHMENT FAULT; FLEXURAL DEFORMATIONS; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; OBLIQUE EXTENSION; SEISMIC REFRACTION DATA; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA;

FAULTING;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; NEOGENE; TECTONICS;

USA;

EID: 84879879819     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<0779:UCSANT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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