The Lower Cretaceous King Lear Formation, northwest Nevada: Implications for Mesozoic orogenesis in the western U.S. Cordillera

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 537-562

  Martin, Aaron J ^a   Wyld, Sandra J ^b   Wright, James E ^b   Bradford, John H ^c  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CONSTRAINTS; ALLOCHTHONS; BACK-ARC; BRAIDED RIVER; DRIVING FORCES; DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY; EARLY CRETACEOUS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; JACKSON; JURASSIC; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MESOZOIC; NEW MEMBERS; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC ROCKS; SHALLOW SEISMIC; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; STRIKE-SLIP DEFORMATION; STRUCTURAL DATA; SUPRACRUSTAL ROCKS; THRUST BELTS; TRIASSIC; VOLCANIC COMPLEX;

CAVITY RESONATORS; DEFORMATION; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

VOLCANIC ROCKS;

ALLOCHTHON; CONGLOMERATE; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; MESOZOIC; OROGENY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SANDSTONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

NEVADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77950992366     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26555.1     Document Type: Article

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