Timing of Colorado Plateau uplift: Initial constraints from vesicular basalt-derived paleoelevations

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 807-810

  Sahagian, Dork ^a   Proussevitch, Alex ^a   Carlson, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Basalt flows; Colorado Plateau; Paleogeography; Vesicular texture

Indexed keywords

PLATEAU UPLIFT;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BASALT; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); FLOW OF FLUIDS; POPULATION STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

GEOLOGY;

BASALT; CENOZOIC; ELEVATION; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UPLIFT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036764788     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0807:TOCPUI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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