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A Paleogene extensional arc flare-up in Iran

scholarly article

A new type of decollement thrusting

scientific article published in December 1982

A physical model for Cenozoic extension of western North America

article

Active megadetachment beneath the western United States

scholarly article by Brian P. Wernicke et al published 21 November 2008 in Journal of Geophysical Research

An animated tectonic reconstruction of southwestern North America since 36 Ma

scientific article published in 2005

Anomalous Strain Accumulation in the Yucca Mountain Area, Nevada ⬇️

scientific article published on March 27, 1998

Assessing vertical axis rotations in large-magnitude extensional settings: A transect across the Death Valley extended terrane, California

scholarly article

Assessment of GPS velocity accuracy for the Basin and Range Geodetic Network (BARGEN)

scholarly article

BARGEN continuous GPS data across the eastern Basin and Range province, and implications for fault system dynamics

article

Basin and Range extension

scientific article published in 1999

Basin and Range extensional tectonics at the latitude of Las Vegas, Nevada

scientific article published in November 1988

Basin and Range extensional tectonics at the latitude of Las Vegas, Nevada: Discussion and reply

scientific article published in February 1990

Black Mountains crustal section, Death Valley extended terrain, California

scholarly article

Cenozoic Tectonism in the Central Basin and Range: Motion of the Sierran-Great Valley Block

scientific article published in May 1998

Cenozoic evolution of Neotethys and implications for the causes of plate motions

scientific article published in October 2003

Cenozoic extensional tectonics of the U.S. Cordillera

academic chapter

Cenozoic thermal evolution of the central Sierra Nevada, California, from (UTh)/He thermochronometry

scientific article

Characteristics of a Continental Margin Magmatic Arc as a Function of Depth: The Skagit-Methow Crustal Section

Characterization of site-specific GPS errors using a short-baseline network of braced monuments at Yucca Mountain, southern Nevada

scientific article

Comment and Reply on "Escape hypothesis for the Stikine block"

scientific article

Comment and Reply on "On the role of isostasy in the evolution of normal fault systems"

scholarly article

Comment and Reply on ‘Magnitude of crustal extension in the southern Great Basin’: REPLY

scholarly article

Comment and Reply on ‘Mesozoic evolution, hinterland of the Sevier orogenic belt’: COMMENT

scientific article

Comment on "Neotethyan subduction ignited the Iran arc and back-arc differently" by Shafaii Moghadam et al. (2020)

Comment on “Tertiary extension and contraction of lower-plate rocks in the central Mojave Metamorphic Core Complex, southern California” by John M. Bartley, John M. Fletcher, and Allen F. Glazner

article by Gary J. Axen & Brian P. Wernicke published October 1991 in Tectonics

Comparison of geodetic and geologic data from the Wasatch region, Utah, and implications for the spectral character of Earth deformation at periods of 10 to 10 million years

scientific article

Contemporary strain rates in the northern Basin and Range province from GPS data

scholarly article

Continuous GPS measurements of contemporary deformation across the Northern Basin and Range Province

scholarly article

Cosmogenic 10Be and 36Cl geochronology of offset alluvial fans along the northern Death Valley fault zone: Implications for transient strain in the eastern California shear zone

scholarly article by Kurt L. Frankel et al published 13 June 2007 in Journal of Geophysical Research

Crustal loading near Great Salt Lake, Utah

article

Dating topography of the Sierra Nevada, California, using apatite (U–Th)/He ages

scientific article published in Nature

Dedication

Deep burial of the footwall of the northern Snake Range decollement, Nevada

scholarly article

Detecting Large-scale Intracontinental Slow-slip Events (SSEs) Using Geodograms

article published in 2010

Distribution and provenance of the middle Miocene Eagle Mountain Formation, and implications for regional kinematic analysis of the Basin and Range province

scientific article published in April 2001

Eastern Grand Canyon Provenance for Orthoquartzite Clasts in Lower Miocene Conglomerates of the Sespe Formation Near Malibu, CA

Electrical conductivity images of Quaternary faults and Tertiary detachments in the California Basin and Range

scholarly article

Episodic Dissolution, Precipitation, and Slip along the Heart Mountain Detachment, Wyoming

scientific article published in January 2016

Escape hypothesis for the Stikine block

scholarly article

Evidence for deep magma injection beneath Lake Tahoe, Nevada-California

scientific article published on 5 August 2004

Evidence for mechanical coupling and strong Indian lower crust beneath southern Tibet

scientific article published in April 2011

Evidence for radiation damage control on apatite He ages from the grand canyon region, colorado plateau

scientific article published in August 2006

Extensional Tectonics in the Basin and Range Province Between The Southern Sierra Nevada And The Colorado Plateau: The Basin And Range Province of Southern Nevada And Southeastern California

Faulting in the Yucca Mountain region: Critical review and analyses of tectonic data from the central Basin and Range

Fluid Flow, Brecciation, and Shear Heating on Faults: Insights From Carbonate Clumped‐Isotope Thermometry

scholarly article by Erika M. Swanson et al published September 2018 in Tectonics

Footwall structural evolution of the Tucki Mountain detachment system, Death Valley region, southeastern California

scholarly article by Kip V. Hodges et al published 1987 in Geological Society Special Publication

Foreword

article published in 1990

Geologic context of geodetic data across a Basin and Range normal fault, Crescent Valley, Nevada

scientific article published in April 2004

Geologic map of the Iceberg Canyon quadrangle, Clark County, Nevada and Mohave County, Arizona ⬇️

map

Geologic map of the east-central Meadow Valley Mountains, and implications for reconstruction of the Mormon Peak detachment, Nevada

article by Erika M. Swanson & Brian P. Wernicke published 26 May 2017 in Geosphere

Geology and thermochronology of Tertiary Cordilleran-style metamorphic core complexes in the Saghand region of central Iran

scientific article published in July 2007

Glaciogenic and related strata of the Neoproterozoic Kingston Peak Formation in the Panamint Range, Death Valley region, California

Global Positioning System constraints on fault slip rates in the Death Valley Region, California and Nevada

scientific article

Gold butte crustal section, South Virgin Mountains, Nevada

scholarly article

Grand Canyon provenance for orthoquartzite clasts in the lower Miocene of coastal southern California

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Great normal faults and their role in accommodating the rise of collisional mountain belts

Helium and argon thermochronometry of the Gold Butte block, south Virgin Mountains, Nevada

scholarly article by Peter W. Reiners et al published May 2000 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Influence of climate change and uplift on Colorado Plateau paleotemperatures from carbonate clumped isotope thermometry

scholarly article

Intracontinental subduction and hinged unroofing along the Salmon River Suture Zone, west central Idaho

scientific article published in 1992

Intracrustal subduction and gravity currents in the deep crust: Sm-Nd, Ar-Ar, and thermobarometric constraints from the Skagit Gneiss Complex, Washington

scientific article published in September 1997

Inversion of 39Ar diffusion data to constrain the Oligocene thickness of the Alpine orogenic lid

Kinematic evolution of a large-offset continental normal fault system, South Virgin Mountains, Nevada

scientific article published in September 2000

Kinematic evolution of a large-offset continental normal fault system, South Virgin Mountains, Nevada: Reply

scholarly article

Large-magnitude Permian shortening and continental-margin tectonics in the southern Cordillera: Discussion and reply

scientific article published in February 1993

Late Neogene–Quaternary tephrochronology, stratigraphy, and paleoclimate of Death Valley, California, USA

scholarly article

Lithospheric extension near Lake Mead, Nevada: A model for ductile flow in the lower crust

scientific article (publication date: 10 March 1991)

Low-angle normal faults and seismicity: A review

article

Low-angle normal faults in the Basin and Range Province: nappe tectonics in an extending orogen

scientific article (publication date: 25 June 1981)

Low-temperature thermochronologic constraints on the kinematic history and spatial extent of the Eastern California shear zone

scientific article published in December 2009

Magnitude of crustal extension in the southern Great Basin

scholarly article

Mesozoic and Cenozoic tectonics of the Sevier thrust belt in the Virgin River Valley area, southern Nevada

Miocene crustal extension and uplift in southeastern Nevada: Constraints from fission track analysis

article by P. G. Fitzgerald et al published 1991 in Geology

Modes of extensional tectonics

scientific article published in January 1982

Nature of the contact zone between the North Cascades crystalline core and the Methow Sequence In the Ross Lake Area, Washington: Implications for Cordilleran tectonics

article

Near-Field Investigations of the Landers Earthquake Sequence, April to July 1992

scientific article

On seasonal signals in geodetic time series

scientific article published in 2012

On the role of isostasy in the evolution of normal fault systems

scientific article

Origin of High Mountains in the Continents: The Southern Sierra Nevada

scientific article published in Science

Present-day pattern of Cordilleran deformation in the western United States

scholarly article

Processes of extensional tectonics

Project combines seismic and magnetotelluric surveying to address the Sierran root question

article

Radiation damage control on apatite (U-Th)/He dates from the Grand Canyon region, Colorado Plateau

scholarly article

Rapid uplift and crustal growth in extensional environments: An isotopic study from the Death Valley region, California

scientific article

Reconciliation of San Andreas slip discrepancy by a combination of interior Basin and Range extension and transrotation near the coast

scholarly article

Reconstruction of Basin and Range extension and westward motion of the Sierra Nevada Block

scientific article published in 2000

Reply [to “Comment on ‘The Snake Range Decollement interpreted as a major extensional shear zone” by John. M. Bartley and Brian P. Wernicke”]

scientific article published in 1985

Results of the Basin and Range Geoscientific Experiment (BARGE): A marine-style seismic reflection survey across the eastern boundary of the central Basin and Range Province

article

Retrospective on "Low-angle (denudation) faults, hinterland of the Sevier orogenic belt, eastern Nevada and western Utah" by Richard Lee Armstrong

scientific article published in 1999

Sm-Nd dating of multiple garnet growth events in an arc-continent collision zone, northwestern U.S. Cordillera

scientific article

Space Geodetic Measurements of Plate Boundary Deformation in the Western U.S. Cordillera

article published in 2013

Spatiotemporal evolution of fault slip rates in deforming continents: The case of the Great Basin region, northern Basin and Range province

scholarly article

Stateline fault system: A new component of the Miocene-Quaternary Eastern California shear zone

scientific article published in November 2007

Structural discordance between neogene detachments and frontal sevier thrusts, central Mormon Mountains, southern Nevada

scientific article

Subsidence history of the Ediacaran Johnnie Formation and related strata of southwest Laurentia: Implications for the age and duration of the Shuram isotopic excursion and animal evolution

scholarly article

Tectonic implications of a dense continuous GPS velocity field at Yucca Mountain, Nevada

scholarly article

Tectonomagmatic evolution of Cenozoic extension in the North American Cordillera

scientific article published in 1987

Temperatures and fluids on faults based on carbonate clumped-isotope thermometry

scientific article published in January 2012

Testing the Extensional Detachment Paradigm: A Borehole Observatory in the Sevier Desert Basin

scientific article published in September 2009

The California River and its Role in Carving Grand Canyon ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

The California River and its role in carving Grand Canyon ⬇️

scholarly article

The Neoproterozoic Noonday Formation, Death Valley region, California

scientific article published on 11 February 2011

The Neoproterozoic Noonday Formation, Death Valley region, California: Reply

scientific article

The Neotethyan Sanandaj-Sirjan zone of Iran as an archetype for passive margin-arc transitions

scientific article published in 2016

The Shuram and subsequent Ediacaran carbon isotope excursions from southwest Laurentia, and implications for environmental stability during the metazoan radiation

scientific article published on 11 February 2011

The Snake Range Décollement interpreted as a major extensional shear zone

scientific article

The detachment era (1977–1982) and its role in revolutionizing continental tectonics

scientific article published in 2009

Thermochronometry Across the Austroalpine-Pennine Boundary, Central Alps, Switzerland: Orogen-Perpendicular Normal Fault Slip on a Major “Overthrust” and Its Implications for Orogenesis

article

Three-dimensional crustal structure of the southern Sierra Nevada from seismic fan profiles and gravity modeling

scholarly article by Moritz M. Fliedner et al published April 1996 in Geology

Th–U–total Pb geochronology of authigenic monazite in the Adelaide rift complex, South Australia, and implications for the age of the type Sturtian and Marinoan glacial deposits

scientific article published in January 2010

Tilt and rotation of the footwall of a major normal fault system: Paleomagnetism of the Black Mountains, Death Valley extended terrane, California

scientific article published in October 1993

Timing of exhumation, Wheeler Pass thrust sheet, southern Nevada and California: Late Jurassic to middle Cretaceous evolution of the southern Sevier fold-and-thrust belt

article

Uniform-sense normal simple shear of the continental lithosphere

scholarly article

Uniqueness of geological correlations: An example from the Death Valley extended terrain

scientific article published in November 1989

Unroofing, incision, and uplift history of the southwestern Colorado Plateau from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry

scholarly article

Use of Clumped-Isotope Thermometry To Constrain the Crystallization Temperature of Diagenetic Calcite

scientific article

Variations across and along a major continental rift: An interdisciplinary study of the Basin and Range Province, western USA

article

Variations across and along a major continental rift: an interdisciplinary study of the Basin and Range Province, western USA

scientific article published in 1992

Variations in magma source regions during large-scale continental extension, Death Valley region, western United States

scientific article published in July 1994

Whole-lithosphere normal simple shear: An interpretation of deep-reflection profiles in Great Britain

article

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