Stable isotopic evidence for a pre-Middle Miocene rain shadow in the western Basin and Range: Implications for the paleotopography of the Sierra Nevada

Tectonics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 16-1-16-10

  Poage, M A ^a   Chamberlain, C P ^b  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Basin and Range; Rain shadow; Sierra Nevada mountains; Smectite; Stable isotopes; Topography

Indexed keywords

ELEVATION; MIOCENE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; SMECTITE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036705728     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001tc001303     Document Type: Article

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