Looking for the Mojave-Sonora megashear in northeastern Mexico

GSA Field Guides

Volumn 14, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-26

  Gray, Gary G ^a   Lawton, Timothy F ^b   Murphy, Justin J ^a  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT STRUCTURES; GEOLOGIC MAPPING; LARAMIDE; LARGE STRUCTURES; LATE JURASSIC; ME-XICO; POTENTIAL FIELD; RELATIVE DISPLACEMENT;

BUILDINGS;

EID: 84964618690     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2008.fld014(01)     Document Type: Article

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