Structural configuration of the Early Cretaceous Cordilleran foreland-basin system and Sevier thrust belt, Utah and Colorado

Journal of Geology

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 697-718

  Currie, Brian S ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; FORELAND BASIN; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THRUST;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036997318     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/342626     Document Type: Article

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