South Virgin-White Hills detachment fault system of SE Nevada and NW Arizona: Applying apatite fission track thermochronology to constrain the tectonic evolution of a major continental detachment fault

Tectonics

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Fitzgerald, Paul G ^a   Duebendorfer, Ernest M ^b   Faulds, James E ^c   O'Sullivan, Paul ^a,d  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d Apatite to Zircon Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; BRECCIA; CATACLASITE; COOLING; EXHUMATION; FAULT; FISSION TRACK DATING; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; HILL; LARAMIDE OROGENY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

COLORADO PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69549095757     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002194     Document Type: Article

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