Three-dimensional Laramide deformation of the Colorado Plateau: Competing stresses from the Sevier thrust belt and the flat Farallon slab

Tectonics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Bump, Alexander P ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado Plateau; Laramide uplifts; Three dimensional stress

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; LARAMIDE OROGENY; PLATEAU; STRESS FIELD; TECTONICS; UPLIFT;

COLORADO PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 6044264957     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002TC001424     Document Type: Article

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