Refining the footwall cooling history of a rift flank uplift, Rio Grande rift, New Mexico

Tectonics

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2003, Pages

  House, M A ^a   Kelley, S A ^b   Roy, M ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Apatite; Fission track; Helium; Rift flank; Sandia Mountains

Indexed keywords

COOLING; FOOTWALL; RIFT ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

NORTH AMERICA; RIO GRANDE RIFT;

EID: 2342650890     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002TC001418     Document Type: Article

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