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Oligocene and Miocene paleogeography of central California and displacement along the San Andreas fault Oligocene and Miocene paleogeography of central California and displacement along the San Andreas fault

Recently completed sedimentologic and petrologic studies of Oligocene and Miocene strata in the Temblor Range (San Joaquin basin) and Santa Cruz Mountains (La Honda basin) permit detailed reconstructions of paleogeography, as well as new estimates of displacement along the San Andreas fault. During the Oligocene and Miocene, the San Joaquin and La Honda basins were contiguous. The...
Authors
S.A. Graham, Richard G. Stanley, J. V. Bent, J. B. Carter

The style of late Cenozoic deformation at the eastern front of the California Coast Ranges The style of late Cenozoic deformation at the eastern front of the California Coast Ranges

The 1983 Coalinga earthquake occurred at the eastern boundary of the California Coast Ranges in response to northeast directed thrusting. Such movements over the past 2 Ma have produced Coalinga anticline by folding above the blind eastern tip of the Coalinga thrust zone. The 600-km length of the Coast Ranges boundary shares a common structural setting that involves westward upturn of...
Authors
Carl M. Wentworth, Mark D. Zoback

New and revised lithostratigraphic units from the southwestern New England Fold Belt New and revised lithostratigraphic units from the southwestern New England Fold Belt

New and revised lithostratigraphic units are recognized in northern New South Wales. New lithostatigraphic units are: Cara Formation, Whitlow Formation, Bobs Creek Formation, Nangahrah Formation, and Dinoga Formation. Revision of the Woolomin beds to Woolomin Group and Woodsreef Melange is proposed.
Authors
M. Clark Blake, B. Murchey

Integrating spatial and frequency information in the search for kuroko deposits of the Hokuroku District, Japan Integrating spatial and frequency information in the search for kuroko deposits of the Hokuroku District, Japan

A new method (FINDER) that uses the area of influence and Bayesian statistics to aid in selection of target areas on the basis of one or more variables and multiple observations was tested with drill hole data. A previously defined bimodal distribution of Na 2 O with the low sodium group confined to a 1.5 X 3.0-km zone beneath the cluster of deposits at Fukazawa was used as a control...
Authors
Donald A. Singer, Ryoichi Kouda
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