Transect across the northern Walker Lane, northwest Nevada and northeast California: An incipient transform fault along the Pacific-North American plate boundary

GSA Field Guides

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 129-150

  Faulds, James E ^a   Henry, Christopher D ^a   Hinz, Nicholas H ^a   Drakos, Peter S ^a   Delwiche, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Nevada; Paleovalley; Riedel shear; Transform fault; Walker Lane

Indexed keywords

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

GEODETIC OBSERVATION; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICAN PLATES; NORTHERN WALKER LANES; PALEOVALLEY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT SYSTEMS; TRANSFORM PLATE BOUNDARY; WALKER LANE;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 85053082555     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2005.fld006(06)     Document Type: Article

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