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Tertiary and Quaternary tectonics of the Hueco bolson, Trans-Pecos Texas and Chihuahua, Mexico
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Published:January 01, 1994
The Hueco bolson of Trans-Pecos Texas formed in response to Cenozoic extensional tectonism and lies within the southern Rio Grande rift near the poorly defined boundary between the rift and the southern Basin and Range province. The bolson is composed of a northwest subbasin that contains north-striking normal faults and a southeast subbasin that contains northwest-striking normal faults. Cenozoic basin fill is thin (less than 150 to 200 m) on the east and northeast bolson margins and is thick (as much as 2,850 m) in the central bolson and on the west and southwest bolson margins where major normal faults...
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Basins of the Rio Grande Rift: Structure, Stratigraphy, and Tectonic Setting
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© 1994 Geological Society of America
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January 01, 1994
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- Basin and Range Province
- boundary faults
- Cenozoic
- Chihuahua Mexico
- displacements
- extension tectonics
- faults
- grabens
- Hueco Bolson
- Mexico
- neotectonics
- normal faults
- North America
- orientation
- Pleistocene
- Quaternary
- Rio Grande Rift
- rupture
- soils
- stratigraphy
- subsidence
- systems
- tectonics
- Tertiary
- Texas
- Trans-Pecos
- United States
- upper Pleistocene
- Campo Grande Fault
- Amargosa fault system
- East Franklin Mountains Fault
- Caballo Fault
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