Carson Pass-Kirkwood paleocanyon system: Paleogeography of the ancestral Cascades arc and implications for landscape evolution of the Sierra Nevada (California)

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 274-299

  Busby, C J ^a   DeOreo, S B ^a   Skilling, I ^b   Gans, P B ^a   Hagan, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral Cascades arc; Basin and Range; Landscape evolution; Miocene volcanism; Sierra Nevada

Indexed keywords

LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PALEOGEOGRAPHY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MAPPING; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BRECCIA; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MIOCENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TECTONIC SETTING; TERTIARY; UNCONFORMITY; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44449116087     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25849.1     Document Type: Article

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