Relay Mountain Group, Tyaughton-Methow basin, southwest British Columbia: A major Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous terrane overlap assemblage

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1143-1167

  Umhoefer, Paul J ^a   Schiarizza, Paul ^a   Robinson, Matt ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; COASTAL ZONES; GEOCHRONOLOGY; RIVERS; ROCKS; SANDSTONE;

MARINE CLASTIC ROCKS;

EARTH SCIENCES;

CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; JURASSIC; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRANE;

CANADA;

EID: 0036025724     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e02-031     Document Type: Article

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