Neogene deformation between central Utah and the Mojave Desert
By: edited by R. Ernest Anderson, U.S. Geological Survey, Kernville, California, USA
Contributors: Geological Society of America
Series: Special paper / Geological Society of America -- 499; Special papers (Geological Society of America) -- 499.
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boulder, Colorado
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9780813724997
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Neotectonics; Rock deformation; Faults (Geology); Strike-slip faults (Geology); Structural Geology; Stratigraphic Geology
Description: "This book is a must-read for researchers interested in extensional tectonics in general and the Neogene tectonics of the Basin and Range in particular, because it challenges, on the basis of more than 50 years of field studies, the existing paradigm of province-wide uniformly large extension and replaces it with a model integrating extension with extension-normal shortening-both as primary strains. The first chapter takes the reader on two journeys southwestward from central Utah through the Lake Mead area: the first to emphasize the lack of uniformly distributed or integrated extension and the second to highlight left-lateral shear at 13 localities along the east margin of the Basin and Range that is kinematically compatible with right-lateral shear along the west margin. The compatibility provides a basis for understanding the extreme Neogene tectonics of the Lake Mead area. The second chapter summarizes multifaceted field evidence from the well-studied eastern Lake Mead area as a focused example of the need for a complete revision of the extensional paradigm." --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Analysis of Neogene deformation between Beaver, Utah and Barstow, California : suggestions for altering the extensional paradigm --; title: On the importance of non-uniform tilt, strike slip, and hydrogeology in shaping the Neogene tectonics of the eastern Lake Mead area.