Interplay of oceanographic and paleoclimate events with tectonism during middle to late Miocene sedimentation across the southwestern USA

Geosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 976-991

  Chapin, Charles E ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; COASTAL PLAIN; EROSION; GLOBAL CHANGE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIOCENE; MONSOON; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONIC SETTING; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); CALIFORNIA; COLORADO PLATEAU; GREAT PLAINS; GULF OF CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA; POACEAE;

EID: 57249090426     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00171.1     Document Type: Article

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