Tectonic controls on mudrock geochemistry, mesozoic rocks of eastern Oregon and western Idaho, U.S.A.: Implications for Cordilleran tectonics

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 765-783

  Lamaskin, Todd A ^a   Dorsey, Rebecca J ^a   Vervoort, Jeffrey D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

CORDILLERAN TECTONICS; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MESOZOIC EVOLUTION; REGIONAL TECTONICS; TECTONIC ANALYSIS; TECTONIC CONTROL; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION; TRIASSIC-JURASSIC;

TECTONICS;

ISLAND ARC; JURASSIC; MESOZOIC; MUDSTONE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TRIASSIC;

BLUE MOUNTAINS [UNITED STATES]; IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

WALLOWA TERRANE;

EID: 58149393438     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2008.087     Document Type: Article

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