Oblique Extension and Basinward Tilting along the Cañones Fault Zone, West Margin of the Rio Grande Rift
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Published:January 01, 2014
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Yiduo Liu, Michael Murphy, 2014. "Oblique Extension and Basinward Tilting along the Cañones Fault Zone, West Margin of the Rio Grande Rift", Sedimentary Basins: Origin, Depositional Histories, and Petroleum Systems, James Pindell, Brian Horn, Norman Rosen, Paul Weimer, Menno Dinkleman, Allen Lowrie, Richard Fillon, James Granath, Lorcan Kennan
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Abstract
The Cañones fault zone in north-central New Mexico is a boundary between the Colorado Plateau to the west and the Rio Grande rift to the east. It consists of a major fault, the Cañones fault, and a series of synthetic and antithetic normal faults within the Abiquiu embayment in the northwestern Española basin. The Cañones fault is a southeast-dipping high-angle normal fault, striking ~N20°E in the south, N40°E in the middle, and east-west at its northern end. The synthetic and antithetic faults are sub-parallel to the major fault. Detailed fault kinematic studies from the master fault reveal that the...
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Sedimentary Basins: Origin, Depositional Histories, and Petroleum Systems

GeoRef
- Cenozoic
- Eocene
- Espanola Basin
- extension
- faults
- folds
- Jurassic
- kinematics
- Laramide Orogeny
- Mesozoic
- Miocene
- monoclines
- Neogene
- New Mexico
- normal faults
- North America
- oblique-slip faults
- Oligocene
- Paleogene
- Paleozoic
- Permian
- Rio Arriba County New Mexico
- Rio Grande Rift
- slickenlines
- Tertiary
- tilt
- Triassic
- United States
- Canones fault zone