Late Paleogene extensional collapse of the Cordilleran foreland fold and thrust belt

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 20-39

  Constenius, Kurt N ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRESS; STRATIGRAPHY;

CRUSTAL EXTENSION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRYSTALLINE BASEMENT; DETACHMENT SURFACES; EXTENSIONAL COLLAPSE; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; TECTONIC TRANSPORT; BRITISH COLUMBIA; EARLY MIOCENE; FOLD STRUCTURES; HALF GRABEN;

FAULTING; STRATIGRAPHY;

COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; CORDILLERA; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EOCENE; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; GRAVITY FIELD; MAGMATISM; MIOCENE; NORTH AMERICAN PLATE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OROGENIC BELT; PACIFIC PLATE; EXTENSIONAL COLLAPSE; PALAEOGENE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; MONTANA; UNITED STATES; UTAH; WYOMING; NORTH AMERICA; NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA;

EID: 0029750080     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<0020:LPECOT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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