Preservation of Proterozoic terrane boundaries within the Colorado Plateau and implications for its tectonic evolution

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 258, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 237-248

  Gilbert, Hersh ^a   Velasco, Aaron A ^b   Zandt, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado Plateau; Proterozoic terranes; Western North America tectonics

Indexed keywords

GRAVITY ANOMALIES; PROTEROZOIC TERRANES;

DEFORMATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; LANDFORMS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

ACCRETION; CONTINENTAL ARC; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRATON; DEFORMATION; MOHO; PLATE BOUNDARY; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TERRANE;

COLORADO PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34249022078     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.03.034     Document Type: Article

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