Xenolith constraints on the thermal history of the mantle below the Colorado Plateau

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 267-270

  Riter, J C A ^a   Smith, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BASIN AND RANGE; COLORADO PLATEAU; FRICTIONAL HEATING; MANTLE LITHOSPHERE; MANTLE TEMPERATURES; SEISMIC STUDIES; SPINEL PERIDOTITES; UPPERMOST MANTLE; ORTHOPYROXENE; THERMAL HISTORY; VOLCANIC FIELD;

MINERALS; GEOLOGY;

CENOZOIC; MAGMA; MANTLE; PLATEAU; SUBDUCTION; UPLIFT; XENOLITH; P/T CONDITIONS; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

COLORADO PLATEAU; UNITED STATES; USA;

EID: 0029768582     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0267:XCOTTH>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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