The Basin and Range Province as a composite extensional domain

WR Dickinson - International Geology Review, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
The Basin and Range province is a composite Cenozoic taphrogen with a present
configuration and internal geometry derived from superimposed multiple phases of …

Ignimbrite flare‐up and deformation in the southern Sierra Madre Occidental, western Mexico: Implications for the late subduction history of the Farallon plate

L Ferrari, M López‐Martínez, J Rosas‐Elguera - Tectonics, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
The Sierra Madre Occidental (SMO) of western Mexico is one of the largest silicic volcanic
provinces on Earth, but the mechanism for the generation of such a large volume of …

Magmatismo y tectónica en la Sierra Madre Occidental y su relación con la evolución de la margen occidental de Norteamérica

L Ferrari, M Valencia-Moreno, S Bryan - Boletín de la Sociedad …, 2005 - scielo.org.mx
Magmatismo y tectónica en la Sierra Madre Occidental y su relación con la evolución de la
margen occidental de norteamérica SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online vol.57 …

Plate interactions control middle–late Miocene, proto-Gulf and Basin and Range extension in the southern Basin and Range

CD Henry, JJ Aranda-Gomez - Tectonophysics, 2000 - Elsevier
Middle–late Miocene (proto-Gulf;∼ 12–6Ma) extension around the Gulf of California (Gulf
Extensional Province) is commonly interpreted as resulting from partitioning of oblique …

Crustal velocity field of Mexico from continuous GPS measurements, 1993 to June 2001: Implications for the neotectonics of Mexico

B Márquez‐Azúa, C DeMets - Journal of Geophysical …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
We combine velocities for 14 continuous GPS stations spanning Mexico and 173 additional
continuous GPS sites on the North American and Pacific plates to study the large‐scale …

Geometry, mechanisms and significance of extensional folds from examples in the Rocky Mountain Basin and Range province, USA

SU Janecke, CJ Vandenburg, JJ Blankenau - Journal of Structural Geology, 1998 - Elsevier
Geologic map** and structural analysis in Paleogene half graben of Idaho and Montana
have revealed over 70 extensional folds that form orthogonal sets with mostly NE-and SE …

Paleogene extension in the southern Basin and Range province of Mexico: Syndepositional tilting of Eocene red beds and Oligocene volcanic rocks in the …

JJ Aranda-Gómez, FW Mcdowell - International Geology Review, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
The Guanajuato region, located in the southern part of the Basin and Range tectonic
province, is characterized by a rhombohedral fault pattern. Extensional faulting-as well as …

[PDF][PDF] Evolución tectonomagmática post-paleocénica de la Sierra Madre Occidental y de la porción meridional de la provincia tectónica de Cuencas y Sierras

JJ Aranda-Gómez, CD Henry… - México: Boletín de la …, 2000 - scholar.archive.org
A partir del Eoceno, los eventos geológicos más importantes en la región han sido
volcanismo y fa l/amiento. La actividad magmática asociada a la subducción dio origen a la …

[HTML][HTML] Thrust v. stylolite

DA Ferrill, AJ Cawood, MA Evans, KJ Smart… - Journal of Structural …, 2024 - Elsevier
Mesostructures in subhorizontal thinly bedded calcareous mudstones of the Permian Bell
Canyon Formation in the western Delaware Basin (Guadalupe Mountains foothills, west …

Deciphering thrust fault nucleation and propagation and the importance of footwall synclines

DA Ferrill, AP Morris, SS Wigginton, KJ Smart… - Journal of Structural …, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, we analyze small scale examples of thrust faults and related folding in
outcrops of the Cretaceous Boquillas Formation within Big Bend National Park in west Texas …