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

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