Mesozoic tectonics and metamorphism in the Pequop Mountains and Wood Hills region, northeast Nevada: Implications for the architecture and evolution of the Sevier orogen

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 74-94

  Camilleri, Phyllis A ^a,b   Chamberlain, Kevin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b AUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; LANDFORMS; LEAD ALLOYS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; URANIUM ALLOYS;

CRUSTAL LEVELS; CRUSTAL THICKENINGS; CRUSTAL THINNING; LATE CRETACEOUS; MESOZOIC TECTONICS; PARTIAL MELTING; REGIONAL TECTONICS; THRUST FAULTING; LATE JURASSIC; PRECAMBRIAN; THRUST FAULTS; UPPER CRUST;

FAULTING;

CRUSTAL SHORTENING; EXHUMATION; FORELAND BASIN; MESOZOIC; METAMORPHISM; OROGENY; PRECAMBRIAN; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; THRUST FAULT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; CRETACEOUS; SEVIER OROGENY; TECTONICS;

NEVADA; PEQUOP MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; USA; WOOD HILLS;

EID: 0030872825     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1997)109<0074:MTAMIT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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