The northern Nevada rift: Regional tectono-magmatic relations and Middle Miocene stress direction
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Abstract
As defined by the most recent aeromagnetic surveys, the north-northwest-trending northern Nevada rift zone extends for at least 500 km from southern Nevada to the Oregon Nevada border. At several places along the rift, the magnetic anomaly is clearly related to north-northwest-trending dikes and flows that, based on new radiometric dating, erupted between 17 and 14 Ma and probably during an even shorter time interval. The tectonic significance of the rift is dramatized by its length, its coincidence in time and space (at its northern terminus) with the oldest silicic caldera complex along the Yellowstone hot-spot trend, and its parallelism with the subduction zone along the North American coast prior to the establishment of the San Andreas fault.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | The northern Nevada rift: Regional tectono-magmatic relations and Middle Miocene stress direction |
| Series title | Geological Society of America Bulletin |
| DOI | 10.1130/0016-7606(1994)106<0371:TNNRRT>2.3.CO;2 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Year Published | 1994 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Geological Society of America |
| Description | 12 p. |
| First page | 371 |
| Last page | 382 |
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