Growth and demise of continental arcs and orogenic plateaux in the North American Cordillera: From Baja to British Columbia

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 227, Issue , 2004, Pages 167-175

  Whitney, Donna L ^a   Paterson, Scott R ^b   Schmidt, Keegan L ^b   Glazner, Allen F ^c   Kopf, Christopher F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORDILLERA; COUPLING; ISLAND ARC; LITHOSPHERE; OROGENY; PLATEAU;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA;

EID: 5544286728     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2004.227.01.09     Document Type: Article

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