Basin Development along the Late Mesozoic and Cainozoic California Margin: A Plate Tectonic Margin of Subduction, Oblique Subduction and Transform Tectonics

Sedimentation in Oblique-Slip Mobile Zones

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 43-62

  Howell, D G ^a   Crouch, J K ^a   Greene, H G ^a   McCulloch, D S ^a   Vedder, J G ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basin development along late Mesozoic and Cainozoic California margin oblique subduction and transform tectonics; Borderland basins, reflecting tectonic instability; Cretaceous and early Tertiary time, orthogonal convergence changing to oblique convergence; Late Mesozoic and Cainozoic basins, relating to plate kinematics; Penecontemporaneous slip, complicating lithofacies patterns; Salinian block allochthonous ensialic crystalline terrane; Upper Cretaceous and Palaeocene deposits, indicating rapid progradational and retrogradational cycles

Indexed keywords

FLOCCULATION; KINEMATICS; LITHOLOGY; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STABILITY; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINES; TOOLS;

CRETACEOUS AND EARLY TERTIARY TIME, ORTHOGONAL CONVERGENCE CHANGING TO OBLIQUE CONVERGENCE; LITHOFACIES PATTERN; MESOZOIC; PLATE KINEMATICS; SALINIAN BLOCK - ALLOCHTHONOUS ENSIALIC CRYSTALLINE TERRANE; UPPER CRETACEOUS;

FAULTING;

EID: 84955403660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444303735.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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