Analysis of Neogene deformation between Beaver, Utah, and Barstow, California: Suggestions for altering the extensional paradigm

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 499, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-67

  Anderson, R Ernest ^a   Beard, L Sue ^a   Mankinen, Edward A ^b   Hillhouse, John W ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; LAKES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SHEAR FLOW; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; SUBSTRATES; UNLOADING;

COLORADO PLATEAU; COMPLEX MIXTURE; DUCTILE SUBSTRATE; FLOWER STRUCTURES; INTERACTION FORCES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; ROTATIONAL STRUCTURES; SCIENCE RESEARCH;

FAULT SLIPS;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISPLACEMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; NEOGENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SHEAR STRAIN; SHEAR ZONE; SLIP RATE; STRAIN RATE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC SETTING; UPLIFT;

BARSTOW; BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; BEAVER COUNTY [UTAH]; CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 84887498767     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2013.2499(01)     Document Type: Article

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