A transect spanning 500 million years of active plate margin history: Outline and field trip guide

GSA Field Guides

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages 373-413

  Moores, E M ^a   Wakabayashi, J ^b   Unruh, J R ^c   Waechter, S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WL Lettis and Associates   (United States)

^d Far Western Anthropological Research Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Coast Ranges; Great Valley; Neotectonics; Sierra Nevada; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

1906 SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE; CALIFORNIA; EASTERN CALIFORNIA; GREAT VALLEY; MID OCEANIC RIDGES; NEOTECTONICS; SIERRA NEVADA; TECTONIC DEVELOPMENT;

TRANSFORM FAULTS;

EID: 85065263306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.1906SF(20)     Document Type: Article

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