Queen Charlotte basin and Coast Mountains: Paired belts of subsidence and uplift caused by a low-angle normal fault

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 819-822

  Rohr, Kristin M M ^a   Currie, Lisel ^b,c  

^a Geological Survey of Canada Sidney   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE;

BASALTIC VOLCANISM; COAST MOUNTAINS; CRUSTAL THINNING; DECOMPRESSION MELTING; MAGMATIC ACTIVITY; MOUNTAIN BELTS; PURE AND SIMPLE SHEARS; VERTICAL MOTIONS;

FAULT SLIPS;

ASTHENOSPHERE; CRUSTAL THINNING; DECOMPRESSION; FAULT ZONE; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; MANTLE UPWELLING; NEOGENE; NORMAL FAULT; OROGENIC BELT; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT; UPPER MANTLE; SHEAR;

COAST MOUNTAINS; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEEN CHARLOTTE BASIN; CANADA; PACIFIC;

EID: 0031474727     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<0819:QCBACM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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