Reconciling disparate estimates of total offset on the southern San Andreas fault

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 975-978

  Darin, Michael H ^a   Dorsey, Rebecca J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCKWISE ROTATION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EASTERN CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC-NORTH AMERICA; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSLATIONAL MODELS;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; TECTONICS;

ESTIMATION;

CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DISPLACEMENT; LITHOLOGY; PALEOCURRENT; PLATE BOUNDARY; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TRANSTENSION;

BIG BEND; CALIFORNIA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SALTON TROUGH; SAN ANDREAS; TEXAS; TRANSVERSE RANGES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84882987653     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34276.1     Document Type: Article

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