Comparative anatomy of core-complex development in the northeastern Great Basin, U.S.A

Rocky Mountain Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-29

  Sullivan, Walter A ^a   Snoke, Arthur W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Albion Mountains; Basin and Range province; Crustal contraction and extension; East Humboldt Range; Great Basin; Grouse Creek Mountains; Hinterland; Metamorphic core complex; Northern Snake Range; Raft River Mountains; Ruby Mountains; Sevier orogenic belt; Southern Snake Range

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DENUDATION; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; MAGMATISM; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC WEDGE;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; GREAT BASIN; HUMBOLDT RANGE; NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; RUBY MOUNTAINS; SNAKE RANGE; UNITED STATES;

TETRAONIDAE;

EID: 34748833452     PISSN: 15557332     EISSN: 15557340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsrocky.42.1.1     Document Type: Article

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