Small-scale convection at the edge of the Colorado Plateau: Implications for topography, magmatism, and evolution of Proterozoic lithosphere

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 611-614

  van Wijk, J W ^a   Baldridge, W S ^b   van Hunen, J ^c   Goes, S ^d   Aster, R ^e   Coblentz, D D ^b   Grand, S P ^f   Ni, J ^g  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^g NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN AND RANGE; CENOZOIC; COLORADO PLATEAU; CONVECTION MODEL; HIGH ELEVATION; LATE NEOGENE; LITHOSPHERIC; MAGMATISMS; PROTEROZOIC; RIO GRANDE RIFT; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE VELOCITY; SMALL-SCALE CONVECTION;

SEISMIC WAVES; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SEISMOLOGY;

EMPLACEMENT; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MAGMATISM; MANTLE CONVECTION; NEOGENE; PROTEROZOIC; QUATERNARY; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SEISMIC WAVE; THERMAL EVOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; COLORADO PLATEAU; RIO GRANDE RIFT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956039955     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31031.1     Document Type: Article

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