Mesozoic deformation in the Nevada Test Site and vicinity: Implications for the structural framework of the Cordilleran Fold and thrust belt and tertiary extension north of Las Vegas Valley

Tectonics ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 1314-1331 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. John Caskey ◽  
Richard A. Schweickert
Keyword(s):  
Las Vegas ◽  
Test Site ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Nevada Test Site ◽  
Las Vegas Valley ◽  
Structural Framework ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt

scholarly journals The Kala Chitta foreland fold and thrust belt, Northern Pakistan

1995 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Kaleem Akhtar Qureshi ◽  
Aftab Ahmad Butt ◽  
Riaz A. Sheikh
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Thrust Belt ◽  
Northern Pakistan ◽  
Structural Framework ◽  
Fold And Thrust Belt ◽  
Detachment Surface ◽  
Basal Detachment

The present structural framework of the Kala Chitta Range evolved through movement between two detachment surfaces. The Precambrian Attock Slates acted as a basal detachment surface above which large scale horizontal compression took place to produce the main structural framework of the Kala Chitta Range. The Middle Eocene argillaceous and gypsiferous Kuldana Formation behaved as the upper detachment surface giving rise to blind thrusts which were later exposed due to the intense erosion of the overlying folded Miocene strata.

Properties of Oak Spring formation in Area 12 at the Nevada Test Site

1959 ◽  
Author(s):  
W.H. Diment ◽  
R.E. Wilcox ◽  
G.V. Keller ◽  
E. Dobrovolny ◽  
F.C. Kracek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Test Site ◽  
Nevada Test Site
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