Late Miocene exhumation and uplift of the Washington Cascade Range

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 767-770

  Reiners, Peter W ^a   Ehlers, Todd A ^b   Garver, John I ^c   Mitchell, Sara Gran ^d   Montgomery, David R ^d   Vance, Joseph A ^d   Nicolescu, Stefan ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

(U Th) He; Apatite; Cascades; Thermochronology; Washington

Indexed keywords

EXHUMATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; FISSION REACTIONS; HELIUM; ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

GEOLOGY;

APATITE; EXHUMATION; FISSION TRACK DATING; MIOCENE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UPLIFT; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346525126     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0767:LMEAUO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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