Implications of jurassic, cretaceous, and proterozoic piercing lines for laramide oblique-slip faulting in New Mexico and rotation of the Colorado Plateau

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 849-868

  Cather, Steven M ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; DEFORMATION; ROTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

CLOCKWISE ROTATION; COLORADO PLATEAU; CRETACEOUS AGE; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DEXTRAL OFFSETS; PLATEAU ROTATION; RIO GRANDE RIFT; STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS;

FAULTING;

CRETACEOUS; FAULTING; JURASSIC; LARAMIDE OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC ROTATION;

COLORADO PLATEAU; NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032847681     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<0849:IOJCAP>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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