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George A. Thompson
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 66
Citations - 3682
George A. Thompson is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Basin and Range Province & Crust. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 66 publications receiving 3607 citations.
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Cainozoic Evolution of the State of Stress and Style of Tectonism of the Basin and Range Province of the Western United States
TL;DR: The basin-range extension of the modern Basin and Range province appears to represent a unique late-stage episode of a much longer period of extension initiated in an in tra-arc setting contemporaneously with calc-alkaline magmatism as discussed by the authors.
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Regional geophysics of the Colorado Plateau
TL;DR: The Colorado Plateau (CP) is a relatively coherent block surrounded on three sides by the extensional block faulted regime of the Basin and Range Province (BRP) and the Rio Grande Rift (RGR).
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Basin and Range rifting in northern Nevada: Clues from a mid-Miocene rift and its subsequent offsets
TL;DR: In this article, a small strike-slip (transform) fault at Sawtooth dike, one short element of the rift, confirms the mid-Miocene extension direction.
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Does magmatism influence low-angle normal faulting?
Tom Parsons,George A. Thompson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest that igneous midcrustal inflation occurring at rates faster than regional extension causes increased horizontal stresses in the crust that alter and rotate the principal stresses.