Unroofing, incision, and uplift history of the southwestern Colorado Plateau from apatite (U-Th)/He thermochronometry

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 5-6, 2008, Pages 571-587

  Flowers, Rebecca M ^a,b   Wernicke, B P ^a   Farley, K A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

(U Th) He; Colorado Plateau; Grand Canyon; Incision; Thermochronometry; Unroofing; Uplift

Indexed keywords

(U-TH)/HE; BASIN-AND-RANGE; COLORADO PLATEAU; GRAND CANYON; INCISION; LATE CRETACEOUS; LATE TERTIARY; PALEOZOIC STRATA; RELATIVE STABILITIES; SINGLE PHASING; THERMOCHRONOMETRY; UNROOFING; UPLIFT;

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING; APATITE; BUILDINGS; BUOYANCY; DRAINAGE; FLUID MECHANICS; FOUNDATIONS; HELIUM; HISTORY; OCEANOGRAPHY; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION; WATER LEVELS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

APATITE; CRETACEOUS; EROSION; HELIUM; MODELING; TERTIARY; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; UNROOFING; UPLIFT; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

ARIZONA; COLORADO PLATEAU; GRAND CANYON; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 49849105646     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26231.1     Document Type: Article

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