Thick-structured Proterozoic lithosphere of the Rocky Mountain region

GSA Today

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 4-9

  Dueker, Ken ^a   Yuan, Huaiyu ^a   Zurek, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; PROTEROZOIC; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035715758     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/1052-5173(2001)011<0004:TSPLOT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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