Alternating contraction and extension in the hinterlands of orogenic belts: An example from the Raft River Mountains, Utah

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 107-126

  Wells, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; KINEMATICS; LANDFORMS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MICA; RIVERS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; DEFORMATION SEQUENCES; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; DUCTILE SHEAR ZONE; DYNAMIC ADJUSTMENT; STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION; STRUCTURAL LEVELS; STRUCTURAL STYLES; CENOZOIC; GEOLOGIC MAPPING; MESOZOIC; OROGENIC BELTS; RAFT RIVER; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

FAULTING; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ALLOCHTHON; CENOZOIC; CONTRACTION; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; MESOZOIC; METAMORPHIC ROCK; ORDOVICIAN; OROGENIC BELT; PENNSYLVANIAN; SHEAR STRAIN; STRATABOUND DEPOSIT; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; COMPRESSIONAL TECTONICS; DEFORMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; SEVIER OROGENY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

RAFT RIVER; UNITED STATES; UTAH; RAFT RIVER MOUNTAINS; USA;

EID: 0030858321     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0107:ACAEIT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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