Tectonic evolution of the Priest River complex, northern Idaho and Washington: A reappraisal of the Newport fault with new insights on metamorphic core complex formation

Tectonics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 375-393

  Doughty, P Ted ^a,b   Price, Raymond A ^b  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOLLEMENT; FAULT GEOMETRY; METAMORPHIC ROCK; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032846715     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998TC900029     Document Type: Article

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