Assessing roles of volcanism and basin subsudence in causing oligocene-lower miocene sedimentation in the Northern Rio Grande rift, New Mexico, U.S.A

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 836-848

  Smith, Gary A ^a   Moore, Jessica D ^a   McIntosh, William C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; SEDIMENTATION; SUBSIDENCE; SYNSEDIMENTARY TECTONICS; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT; VOLCANISM; ARGON ISOTOPE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNIMBRITE; NUMERICAL METHOD; PETROGRAPHY; RIFT ZONE; SIMULATION;

UNITED STATES; NORTH AMERICA; RIO GRANDE RIFT;

EXPLOSIVES; NUMERICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; TOPOGRAPHY; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

DEBRIS FLOW DEPOSITS; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; FLUVIAL SEDIMENTATIONS; PETROGRAPHIC STUDIES; SANDSTONE COMPOSITION; STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVALS; STREAM LONGITUDINAL PROFILES; VOLCANICLASTIC SEDIMENTS;

VOLCANOES;

EID: 0038744233     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/050602720836     Document Type: Article

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