| Abstract: | Numerous reduced stress tensors are computed by multiple inversions of 906 temporally and spatially partitioned fault-slip data from the Yucca Flat region in the southwest Nevada volcannic field to constrain the Neogene paleostress and faulting history and to investigate how the regional tectonic stress field was affected by local caldera magmatism. Perturbed, shalalow (<400 m), pre-11 Ma paleostress configurations, determined west and northwest of present (post-11 Ma) Yucca Flat basin, existed during mild extensional faulting and are attributed to superposition of transient caldera-magmatic stresses on the regional stress field. The stress field has rotated as much as 65?? clockwise since 11 Ma during extensional development of Yucca Flat basin, with most of the rotation and extension occurring before about 8.5 Ma. Results suggest that shallow magmatism and caldera development can strongly alter extensional tectonic stress fields, fault patterns, and slip directions in the uppermost crust out to distances of roughly two magma chamber radii away from a magma body. -from Author |
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| Citation Author: | Minor, S. A. |
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| Citation Larger Work Title: | Journal of Geophysical Research |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Superposed local and regional paleostresses: fault-slip analysis of Neogene extensional faulting near coeval caldera complexes, Yucca Flat, Nevada; 1995; Article; Journal; Journal of Geophysical Research; Minor, S. A. |
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| Citation Volume: | 100 |
| Citation Year: | 1995 |
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| Text: | Superposed local and regional paleostresses: fault-slip analysis of Neogene extensional faulting near coeval caldera complexes, Yucca Flat, Nevada; 1995; Article; Journal; Journal of Geophysical Research; Minor, S. A. |
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| Date Other: | Sun, 1 Jan 1995 00:00 -0600 |
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