The Evolution from Late Miocene West Salton Detachment Faulting to Cross-Cutting Pleistocene Oblique Strike-Slip Faults in the SW Salton Trough, Southern California
Field studies in the southwest Salton Trough between Yaqui Ridge and Borrego Mountain show that the West Salton detachment fault was active during the Pliocene and may have initiated during the latest Miocene. At Yaqui Ridge dominantly east-directed extension is recorded by slickenlines on the NW-st...
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DigitalCommons@USU
2006
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| Online Access: | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6745 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7819&context=etd |