Early Proterozoic oceanic crust in the northern Colorado Front Range: Implications for crustal growth and initiation of basement faults

Tectonics

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Cavosie, Aaron ^a   Selverstone, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault reactivation; Metaophiolite; Proterozoic tectonics; Transform fault; Whole rock analyses

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; FAULTING; GEOCHEMISTRY; OCEANIC CRUST; OPHIOLITE; PETROGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0043095406     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001TC001325     Document Type: Article

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