Sequential intercontinental suturing as the ultimate control for Pennsylvanian Ancestral Rocky Mountains deformation

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 609-612

  Dickinson, William R ^a   Lawton, Timothy F ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral Rocky Mountains; Ouachita; Pennsylvanian; Suture belt; Tectonism

Indexed keywords

COLLISIONAL OROGENS;

STRESSES; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; GONDWANA; LAURENTIA; PENNSYLVANIAN; STRESS CHANGE; SUBDUCTION; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONICS;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0043198225     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0609:SISATU>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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