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Synclinal-Horst Basins: Examples From the Southern Rio Grande Rift and Southern Transition Zone of Southwestern New Mexico, USA

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Date Published: 
September 2003
Authors: 
Greg H. Mack
Mike R. Leeder
William R. Seager

In areas of broadly distributed extensional strain, the back-tilted edges of a wider than normal horst block may create a synclinal-horst basin. Three Neogene synclinal-horst basins are described from the southern Rio Grande rift and southern Transition Zone of southwestern New Mexico,USA

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Mack, G.H., Seager, W.R., and Leeder, M.R., 2003, Synclinal-horst basins: examples from the southern Rio Grande rift and southern transition zone of southwestern New Mexico: Basin Research, v. 15, p. 365-377.

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