Late Cenozoic structure and evolution of the Great Basin-Sierra Nevada transition / edited by John S. Oldow, Patricia H. Cashman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oldow, John S.

Cashman, Patricia Hughes.

Series:

Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 447.

Special paper ; 447

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology, Stratigraphic--Neogene.

Geology, Stratigraphic.

Geology, Structural--Great Basin.

Geology, Structural.

Geology--Great Basin.

Geology.

Physical Description:

viii, 372 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2009.

Contents:

Geodetic observation of contemporary deformation in the northern Walker Lane: semipermanent GPS strategy / Geoffrey Blewitt, William C. Hammond, and Corné Kreemer

Geodetic constraints on contemporary deformation in the northern Walker Lane: velocity and strain rate tensor analysis / Corné Kreemer, Geoffrey Blewitt, and William C. Hammond

Geodetic constraints on contemporary deformation in the northern Walker Lane: central Nevada seismic belt postseismic relaxation / William C. Hammond, Corné Kreemer, and Geoffrey Blewitt

Spatially partitioned transtension within the central Walker Lane, western Great Basin, USA: application of the polar Mohr construction for finite deformation / Justin J. Murphy, A. John Watkinson, and John S. Oldow

Neotectonic analysis of Upper Klamath Lake, Oregon: new insights from seismic reflection data / Lee M. Liberty ... [et al.]

Late Neogene basin history at Honey Lake, northeastern California: implications for regional tectonics at 3 to 4 Ma / J.H. Trexler Jr. ... [et al.]

Tertiary volcanic stratigraphy and paleotopography of the Diamond and Fort Sage Mountains: constraining slip along the Honey Lake fault zone in the northern Walker Lane, northeastern California and western Nevada / Nicholas H. Hinz, James E. Faulds, and Christopher D. Henry

Biostratigraphy of the Hunter Creek Sandstone, Verdi Basin, Washoe County, Nevada / Thomas S. Kelly and Ross Secord

Stratigraphy and structure of the Neogene Boca basin, northeastern California: implications for late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the northern Sierra Nevada / Kevin B. Mass, Patricia H. Cashman, and James H. Trexler Jr.

Neogene tectonic evolution of the Sierra Nevada-Basin and Range transition zone at the latitude of Carson City, Nevada / Patricia H. Cashman ... [et al.]

Flattening strain during coordinated slip on a curved fault array, Rhodes Salt Marsh extensional basin, central Walker Lane, west-central Nevada / Luigi Ferranti ... [et al.]

Late Miocene to Pliocene vertical-axis rotation attending development of the Silver Peak-Lane Mountain displacement transfer zone, west-central Nevada / Michael S. Petronis ... [et al.]

Cenozoic volcanism and tectonics in the Queen Valley area, Esmeralda County, western Nevada / Christopher R. Tincher and Daniel F. Stockli

Late Miocene to Pliocene synextensional deposition in fault-bounded basins within the upper plate of the western Silver Peak-Lone Mountain extensional complex, west-central Nevada / John S. Oldow ... [et al.]

Deformation of the late Miocene to Pliocene Inyo surface, eastern Sierra region, California / A.S. Jayko

Seismotectonics of an evolving intracontinental plate boundary, southeastern California / Jeffrey Unruh and Egill Hauksson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780813724478

0813724473

OCLC:

276712926