Structure of the Carrizo Mountain Group, southeastern Carrizo Mountains, west Texas: A transpressional zone of the Grenville orogen

Tectonics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Grimes, Stephen W ^a   Mosher, Sharon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrizo; Grenville; Precambrian; Texas; Transpression; Van Horn

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GRENVILLIAN OROGENY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSPRESSION;

CARRIZO MOUNTAINS; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0038343124     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001TC001316     Document Type: Article

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