Active evaporite tectonics and collapse in the Eagle River valley and the southwestern flank of the White River uplift, Colorado

GSA Field Guides

Volumn 1, Issue , 1999, Pages 97-114

  Scott, R B ^a   Lidke, D J ^a   Hudson, M R ^a   Perry, W J ^a   Bryant, Bruce ^a   Kunk, M J ^a   Budahn, J R ^a   Byers, F M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DISSOLUTION; LANDFORMS;

EVAPORITES; FIELD TRIPS; LOWER MIOCENE; NEO GENES; NEOGENE TILTING; PENNSYLVANIANS; PERMIAN; RIVER VALLEY; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; TRIASSIC;

RIVERS;

EID: 0006532730     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-0001-9.97     Document Type: Article

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