Accommodation zones and transfer zones : the regional segmentation of the Basin and Range province / edited by James E. Faulds and John H. Stewart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Faulds, James E., 1957-

Stewart, J. H., 1928-2013.

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 323.

Special paper ; 323

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology, Structural--West (U.S.).

Geology, Structural.

Physical Description:

vii, 257 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 28 cm.

Other Title:

Regional segmentation of the Basin and Range province

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 1998.

Contents:

1. The role of accommodation zones and transfer zones in the regional segmentation of extended terranes / James E. Faulds, Robert J. Varga 1

2. Regional characteristics, tilt domains, and extensional history of the late Cenozoic Basin and Range province, western North America / John H. Stewart 47

3. Basement-controlled transfer zones in an area of low-magnitude extension, eastern Basin and Range province, Trans-Pecos Texas / Christopher D. Henry 75

4. Seismic reflection evidence for detachment polarity beneath a major accommodation zone, west-central Arizona / Joseph M. Kruger, James E. Faulds, Stephen J. Reynolds, David A. Okaya 89

5. Structural control of rock-avalanche deposition in the Colorado River extensional corridor, southeastern California-western Arizona / Kathi K. Beratan 115

6. Restoration of Tertiary deformation in the Lake Mead region, southern Nevada: The role of strike-slip transfer zones / Ernest M. Duebendorfer, L. Sue Beard, Eugene I. Smith 127

7. Paleomagnetic evidence for counterclockwise rotation in a broad sinistral shear zone, Basin and Range province, southeastern Nevada and southwestern Utah / M. R. Hudson, J. G. Rosenbaum, C. S. Gromme, R. B. Scott, P. D. Rowley 149

8. The Caliente-Enterprise zone, southeastern Nevada and southwestern Utah / Gary J. Axen 181

9. Cenozoic transverse zones and igneous belts in the Great Basin, western United States: Their tectonic and economic implications / Peter D. Rowley 195

10. Insights from Quaternary relations for segmentation of the Great Basin by regional, transverse accommodation zones / Paul C. Thenhaus, Theodore P. Barnhard 229

11. Cenozoic tilt domains in southwestern Montana: Interference among three generations of extensional fault systems / James W. Sears, William J. Fritz 241

Plate

Plate 1. Map showing Cenozoic tilt domains and associated structural features, western North America.

Notes:

One folded col. map in pocket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

081372323X

OCLC:

38438909