Filling the North American Proterozoic tectonic gap: 1.60-1.59-Ga deformation and orogenesis in southern Wyoming, USA

Journal of Geology

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-42

  Duebendorfer, Ernest M ^a   Chamberlain, Kevin R ^b   Heizler, Matthew T ^c  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 30344466610     PISSN: 00221376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/498098     Document Type: Review

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