Origin of the salt valleys in the Canyonlands section of the Colorado Plateau Evaporite-dissolution collapse versus tectonic subsidence

Geomorphology

Volumn 57, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 423-435

  Gutierrez F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Colorado Plateau; Dissolution subsidence; Evaporite karst; Paradox Basin; Salt; Salt tectonics

Indexed keywords

ANTICLINE; DIAPIR; DISSOLUTION; EVAPORITE; NEOTECTONICS; SALT TECTONICS; SUBSIDENCE;

COLORADO PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1142305260     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(03)00186-7     Document Type: Article

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