Influence of Sediment Input and Plate-Motion Obliquity on Basin Development Along an Active Oblique-Divergent Plate Boundary: Gulf of California and Salton Trough

Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 209-225

  Dorsey, Rebecca J ^a   Umhoefer, Paul J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado River; Gulf of California; Oblique divergent plate boundary; Rift architecture; Transtensional basins

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880508993     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444347166.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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