Sierra Nevada uplift: A ductile link to mantle upwelling under the Basin and Range province

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 299-302

  Liu, Mian ^a   Shen, Yunqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN AND RANGE; DUCTILE MATERIALS; LATE CENOZOIC; LITHOSPHERIC THINNING; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE UPWELLINGS; MOUNTAIN RANGES; SOUTHERN SIERRA NEVADA;

GEOLOGY;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CENOZOIC; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE UPWELLING; MOUNTAIN REGION; THINNING; UPLIFT; CAINOZOIC;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; USA;

EID: 0008009033     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0299:SNUADL>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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