Low-angle normal faults in the Basin and Range Province: nappe tectonics in an extending orogen
Abstract
Cenozoic normal fault mosaics bounded beneath by a basal fault in the Basin and Range Province (BRP) have traditionally been described either in terms of large-scale surficial gravity sliding or by some form of in situ lower plate accommodation. I suggest here that these areas may be an extensional analogue to thin-skinned compressional orogens, a process which may even dominate active BRP tectonics.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- June 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1038/291645a0
- Bibcode:
- 1981Natur.291..645W