Paleomagnetic and structural evidence for localized tectonic rotation associated with fault drag in the northeastern Mojave Desert: Implications for the late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Eastern California shear zone

Details Paleomagnetic and structural evidence for localized tectonic rotation associated with fault drag in the northeastern Mojave Desert: Implications for the late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Eastern California shear zone Paleomagnetic and structural evidence for localized tectonic rotation associated with fault drag in the northeastern Mojave Desert: Implications for the late Cenozoic tectonic evolution of the Eastern California shear zone

Sep 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994e%26psl.126..207m&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters (ISSN 0012-821X), vol. 126, no. 4, p. 207-216

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Folds (Geology), Geological Faults, Shear Properties, Tectonics, Paleontology, Plates (Tectonics)

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Paleomagnetic data, coupled with detailed geological analysis of the southeastern Goldstone Lake region, indicate that lower Miocene volcanic and epiclastic rocks of the Pink Canyon area have been folded, faulted and tectonically rotated approximately 28.4 + or - 9.0 deg clockwise about a vertical axis. The Coyote Canyon Fault is locally folded about a vertical axis approximately 25 deg in a clockwise sense in the Pink Canyon area. Timing relationships indicate that rotation is post-early Miocene; regional relationships imply that deformation is late Miocene to Holocene in age. These relationships imply that tectonic rotation is local rather than regional in extent as proposed by some tectonic models. The results of this study are generally consistent with the Dokka and Travis model and the subsequently revised Dokka model of strain partitioning in the northeastern Mojave Desert block.

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