Increasing long-wavelength relief across the southeastern flank of the Sierra Nevada, California

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 287, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 255-264

  Bennett, R A ^a   Fay, N P ^a   Hreinsdottir S ^a   Chase, C ^a   Zandt, G ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

geodesy; GPS; orogenesis; rock uplift; Sierra Nevada; tectonics

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT LOADS; CURRENT ESTIMATES; DEGREE OF CORRELATIONS; DENSE NETWORK; ELASTIC THICKNESS; EROSION RATES; GPS; HIGH ELEVATION; LATE MIOCENE; LONG WAVELENGTH; MID-PLIOCENE; NORTHERN BASINS; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; OROGENESIS; PLIOCENE; RELATIVE RATES; SIERRA NEVADA; SIERRA NEVADA , CALIFORNIA; SURFACE ELEVATIONS; THERMO-MECHANICAL; UPLIFT RATE; UPPER MANTLE; VERTICAL SURFACE;

GEODESY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; SURVEYING; TECTONICS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ELEVATION; EROSION RATE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEODESY; GEODYNAMICS; GPS; OROGENY; TECTONICS; UPLIFT; UPPER MANTLE;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70349405135     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.08.011     Document Type: Article

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