Intraplate mountain building in response to continent-continent collision-The Ancestral Rocky Mountains (North America) and inferences drawn from the Tien Shan (Central Asia)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 365, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 129-142

  Dickerson, Patricia Wood ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral Rocky Mountains; Eurasia; Gondwana; India; Intraplate deformation; Late Paleozoic; Laurentia; Lithosphere; Neotectonics; Tectonics; Tien Shan

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; GONDWANA; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; LAURENTIA; LITHOSPHERE; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

ASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0038035673     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00019-2     Document Type: Article

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