Relation of flat subduction to magmatism and deformation in the western United States

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 204, Issue , 2009, Pages 85-98

  Humphreys, Eugene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNLOADING;

BASIN AND RANGE; COMBINED EFFECT; FLAT SUBDUCTIONS; NORTH AMERICAN CRATONS; OCEANIC PLATEAUX; PACIFIC PLATES; SMALL-SCALE CONVECTION; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

DEFORMATION;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DEFORMATION; LARAMIDE OROGENY; MAGMATISM; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; SUBDUCTION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77949837264     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.1204(04)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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