Tectonic controls on fault zone flow pathways in the rio grande rift, New Mexico, USA

Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 723-726

  Williams, Randolph T ^a   Goodwin, Laurel B ^a   Mozley, Peter S ^b   Beard, Brian L ^a   Johnson, Clark M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENTS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

BASIN-BOUNDING FAULTS; FAULT DAMAGE ZONE; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE ARCHITECTURE; LARGE DISPLACEMENTS; PERMEABILITY STRUCTURE; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION;

FAULTING;

DIAGENESIS; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT ZONE; PALEOZOIC; RIFT ZONE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL CONTROL; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

RIO GRANDE RIFT;

EID: 84942240463     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G36799.1     Document Type: Article

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