Evaluation of paleomagnetic and finite strain relationships due to the Alleghanian Orogeny in the Mississippian Mauch Chunk Formation, Pennsylvania

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Cioppa, M T ^a   Kodama, K P ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite strain; Mauch Chunk formation; Paleomagnetism; Pennsylvania Salient

Indexed keywords

ALLEGHANIAN OROGENY; DEFORMATION; PALEOMAGNETISM; STRAIN; TECTONICS;

PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038268752     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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