Sediment delivery to the Cordilleran foreland basin: Insights from U-Pb ages of detrital zircons in Upper Jurassic and Cretaceous strata of the Colorado Plateau

American Journal of Science

Volumn 308, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1041-1082

  Dickinson, William R ^a   Gehrels, George E ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

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ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; DELTAIC DEPOSIT; DEPOSITION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; FOREARC BASIN; FORELAND BASIN; ISOSTASY; JURASSIC; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUBSIDENCE;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA;

EID: 58649085072     PISSN: 00029599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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