TY - JOUR
T1 - Kinematic role of transverse structures in continental extension
T2 - an example from the Las Vegas Valley shear zone, Nevada
AU - Duebendorfer, E. M.
AU - Black, R. A.
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - Analysis of the "slip budget' of the Las Vegas Valley shear zone, southern Nevada, leads to a model that explains many of the kinematic complexities that, characterize transverse structures in continental extensional settings, including 1) abrupt terminations of these structures along strike, 2) large lateral translations across relatively short faults, 3) apparent lack of strike-slip offset or contradictory evidence of shear sense along some transverse structures, 4) significant variation in slip magnitude along strike, and 5) juxtaposition of differentially extended terranes on opposite sides of faults. Many major transverse structures may function largely as transfer faults that either link or form passive boundaries between differentially extended terranes. -Authors
AB - Analysis of the "slip budget' of the Las Vegas Valley shear zone, southern Nevada, leads to a model that explains many of the kinematic complexities that, characterize transverse structures in continental extensional settings, including 1) abrupt terminations of these structures along strike, 2) large lateral translations across relatively short faults, 3) apparent lack of strike-slip offset or contradictory evidence of shear sense along some transverse structures, 4) significant variation in slip magnitude along strike, and 5) juxtaposition of differentially extended terranes on opposite sides of faults. Many major transverse structures may function largely as transfer faults that either link or form passive boundaries between differentially extended terranes. -Authors
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84879890901&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=84879890901&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1130/0091-7613(1992)020<1107:KROTSI>2.3.CO;2
DO - 10.1130/0091-7613(1992)020<1107:KROTSI>2.3.CO;2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84879890901
SN - 0091-7613
VL - 20
SP - 1107
EP - 1110
JO - Geology
JF - Geology
IS - 12
ER -