Exhumation of the central Wasatch Mountains, Utah: 1. Patterns and timing of exhumation deduced from low-temperature thermochronology data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Armstrong, Phillip A ^a   Ehlers, Todd A ^b,c   Chapman, David S ^b   Farley, Kenneth A ^d   Kamp, Peter J J ^e  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Fission track; Helium dating; Wasatch Mountains

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; MOUNTAIN; NORMAL FAULT; PLUTONISM; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

UNITED STATES; UTAH; WASATCH MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0037777466     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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