Basin and range extensional tectonics near the latitude of Las Vegas, Nevada / edited by Brian P. Wernicke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wernicke, Brian P., 1958-

Geological Society of America.

Series:

Memoir (Geological Society of America) ; 176.

Publication (International Lithosphere Program) ; no. 180.

Memoir / the Geological Society of America ; 176

Publication no. 0180 of the International Lithosphere Program

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology, Structural--Nevada--Las Vegas Region.

Geology, Structural.

Nevada--Las Vegas Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 511 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 1990.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cenozoic geometry and thermal state of the subducting slabs beneath western North America

Miocene volcanism, folding, and faulting in the Castle Mountains, southern Nevada and eastern California

Structural development of a major extensional accommodation zone in the Basin and Range Province, northwestern Arizona and southern Nevada

Saddle Island detachment

Sedimentologic and stratigraphic constraints on the Neogene translation and rotation of the Frenchman Mountain structural block, Clark County, Nevada

Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonics of the Sevier thrust belt in the Virgin River Valley area, southern Nevada.

Fault kinematics and estimates of strain partitioning of a Neogene extensional fault system in southeastern Nevada

Spatial and temporal relations of Cenozoic volcanism and extension in the North Pahroc and Seaman Ranges, eastern Nevada

Tertiary normal faults superimposed on Mesozoic thrusts, Quinn Canyon and Grant Ranges, Nye County, Nevada

Shallow crustal deformation in the Pahranagat area, southern Nevada

Superposed Mesozoic and Cenozoic deformation, Indian Springs Quadrangle, southern Nevada

Tectonic setting of Yucca Mountain, southwest Nevada

Styles of extension in the Nevada Test Site region, southern Walker Lane Belt

Effect of Cenozoic extension on Mesozoic thrust surfaces in the central and southern Funeral Mountains, Death Valley, California.

Late Cenozoic extensional and compressional tectonism in the southern and western Avawatz Mountains, southeastern California

Structural styles across an extensional orogen

Uplift and exposure of the Panamint metamorphic complex, California

Constraints on the kinematics and timing of late Miocene-recent extension between the Panamint and Black Mountains, southeastern California

Structural unroofing of the central Panamint Mountains, Death Valley region, southeastern California

Geochemistry of Mio-Pliocene volcanic rocks from around Panamint Valley, Death Valley area, California

Listric normal faulting and synorogenic sedimentation, northern Cottonwood Mountains, Death Valley region, California.

Changing patterns of extensional tectonics : overprinting of the basin of the middle and upper Miocene Esmeralda Formation in western Nevada by younger structural basins

Reconstruction of extensionally dismembered early Mesozoic sedimentary basins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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OCLC:

858849418

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