Anatomy and global context of the North American Cordillera

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 204, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-29

  Dickinson, William R ^a  

^a The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSFORM FAULTS;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; BASIN AND RANGE; CENOZOIC EXTENSION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRUSTAL EXTENSION; OCEANIC ISLANDS; PASSIVE CONTINENTAL MARGIN; SUBDUCTION ZONES;

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

CENOZOIC; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CORDILLERA; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOREARC BASIN; OROGENIC BELT; OROGENY; SUBDUCTION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSFORM FAULT;

NORTH AMERICAN CORDILLERA;

EID: 77949831361     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.1204(01)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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