Heart Mountain and South Fork fault systems: Architecture and evolution of the collapse of an eocene volcanic system, northwest Wyoming

Rocky Mountain Geology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 147-164

  Beutner, Edward C ^a   Hauge, Thomas A ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abiathar breakaway; Absaroka volcanics; Breakaway; Detachment; Fault; Heart Mountain; South Fork; Volcano collapse; Wyoming

Indexed keywords

ALLOCHTHON; COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DETACHMENT FAULT; EMPLACEMENT; EOCENE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT ZONE; FLUID PRESSURE; FORMATION MECHANISM; STRESS FIELD; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VOLCANIC LANDFORM;

HEART MOUNTAIN; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 73649118512     PISSN: 15557332     EISSN: 15557340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gsrocky.44.2.147     Document Type: Article

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