Jurassic onset of foreland basin deposition in northwestern Montana, USA: Implications for along-strike synchroneity of Cordilleran orogenic activity

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 379-382

  Fuentes, F ^a   DeCelles, P G ^a   Gehrels, G E ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETRITAL ZIRCON; EARLY CRETACEOUS; FORELAND BASIN; JURASSIC; MONTANA; MONTANA , USA; PATTERN CHARACTERISTIC; U-PB AGES;

DEPOSITS; LEAD; STRATIGRAPHY; ZIRCON;

SUBSIDENCE;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DEPOCENTER; DEPOSITION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; FORELAND BASIN; FORMATION MECHANISM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; JURASSIC; OROGENY; PALEOSOL; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; STRIKE (GEOLOGY); SUBSIDENCE; UNCONFORMITY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69649087464     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25557A.1     Document Type: Article

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