Mechanisms for accommodation of Miocene extension: Low-angle normal faulting, magmatism, and secondary breakaway faulting in the southern Sacramento Mountains, southeastern California
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عنوان ژورنال: Tectonics
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0278-7407
DOI: 10.1029/1999tc001133