Kinematics and synorogenic sedimentation of the eastern frontal part of the sevier orogenic wedge, northern Utah

Brigham Young University Geology Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 335-380

  Yonkee, W A ^a   Decelles, P G ^b   Coogan, J ^b  

^a WEBER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

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