Analysis of the Wallowa-Baker terrane boundary: Implications for tectonic accretion in the Blue Mountains province, northeastern Oregon

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 517-536

  Schwartz, Joshua J ^a   Snoke, Arthur W ^a   Frost, Carol D ^a   Barnes, Calvin G ^b   Gromet, L Peter ^c   Johnson, Kenneth ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON DOWNTOWN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY COMPLEX; BLUE MOUNTAIN; FAULT ZONE; FOREARC; LATE PALEOZOIC; MESOZOIC; METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS; TECTONIC BOUNDARIES;

CAVITY RESONATORS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; NEODYMIUM; TECTONICS;

LANDFORMS;

ACCRETION; ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ARC-ARC COLLISION; ARGILLITE; CHERT; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; IMBRICATION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRANE;

BAKER COUNTY [OREGON]; BLUE MOUNTAINS [UNITED STATES]; OREGON; UNITED STATES; WALLOWA MOUNTAINS;

EID: 77950992705     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26493.1     Document Type: Article

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