Mesozoic stratigraphic constraints on Laramide right slip on the east side of the Colorado Plateau

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 843-846

  Woodward, Lee A ^a   Anderson, Orin J ^b   Lucas, Spencer G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; PIERCING;

COLORADO PLATEAU; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; JURASSIC; LATE CRETACEOUS; NEW MEXICO; PALEOGENE; PROTEROZOIC; REVERSE FAULTS; MESOZOIC;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CRATON; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; LARAMIDE OROGENY; MESOZOIC; SLIP; STRATIGRAPHY; FAULT; PIERCING LINE; RIGHT SLIP;

COLORADO PLATEAU; UNITED STATES; NEW MEXICO; USA;

EID: 0031447139     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0843:MSCOLR>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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