COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Geometry and Kinematics of Late Cenozoic Deformation in the Northeastern Mojave Desert

合作研究：莫哈韦沙漠东北部晚新生代变形的几何学和运动学

• 批准号: 9104915
• 负责人: Elizabeth Schermer
• 金额: $ 6.81万
• 依托单位: Western Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-09-01 至 1994-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9104915&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: COLLABORATIVE; RESEARCH; Geometry; Kinematics; Late

This is a collaborative structural, geochronologic and paleomagnetic study of late Cenozoic tectonics in the NE Mojave desert. The major faults in this region are sinistral and east- trending, unlike in the rest of the Mojave where NW-trending, dextral, strike-slip faulting prevails. This study will determine the relative importance and timing of the two fault systems. The results will provide information on the interaction between deformation in the Mojave block and that in the Basin and Range province, and will provide important constraints on the mechanical processes that occur along plate boundary zones.

这是一个合作的结构，地质年代学和 东北部莫哈韦晚新生代构造的古地磁研究 沙漠 区内主要断裂为左旋和东向断裂， 不像其他的莫哈韦地区， 右旋走滑断层活动占优势。 本研究将确定 两个断层系统的相对重要性和时间性。 的 结果将提供关于以下因素之间相互作用的信息： 莫哈韦地块和盆地山脉的变形 省，并将提供重要的限制，机械 沿沿着板块边界带发生的过程。