A lithospheric instability origin for Columbia River flood basalts and Wallowa Mountains uplift in northeast Oregon

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7069, 2005, Pages 842-845

  Hales, T C ^a   Abt, D L ^a,b   Humphreys, E D ^a   Roering, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EROSION; GEOLOGY; GRANITE; HEAT CONVECTION; RIVERS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

COLUMBIA RIVER BASALTS (CRB);

BASALT;

DOWNWELLING; FLOOD BASALT; HOT SPOT; MAGMATISM;

ARTICLE; BASALT; FLOODING; GEOLOGY; PRECAMBRIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; SOIL QUALITY; SOIL STRUCTURE; TOPOGRAPHY; VOLCANO;

COLUMBIA RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES; WALLOWA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 28644446139     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04313     Document Type: Article

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