Is the Wasatch fault footwall (Utah, United States) segmented over million-year time scales?

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 385-388

  Armstrong, Philip A ^a   Taylor, Aron R ^a   Ehlers, Todd A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Exhumation; Fault segmentation; Helium ages; Thermochronology; Wasatch Mountains

Indexed keywords

FOOTWALL; PLIOCENE; TOPOGRAPHIC SALIENTS;

DIFFUSION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOPHYSICS;

GEOLOGY;

EXHUMATION; FAULT ZONE; FOOTWALL; KINEMATICS; SEGMENTATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASATCH FAULT ZONE;

EID: 2442606290     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20421.1     Document Type: Article

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