Imaging the mountainless root of the 1.8 Ga Cheyenne belt suture and clues to its tectonic stability

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 669-672

  Crosswhite, Jason A ^a   Humphreys, Eugene D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cheyenne belt; Isostasy; Seismic discontinuities; Seismic studies; Suture zones

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL ROOTS;

GRAVITATION; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; TECTONICS;

LITHOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DISCONTINUITY; MOHO; PRECAMBRIAN; SEISMICITY; SUTURE ZONE; TECTONIC SETTING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0141648318     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G19552.1     Document Type: Article

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