The enigmatic rise of the Colorado Plateau

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 671-672

  Flowers, Rebecca M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL RISE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; RELIEF; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; UPLIFT;

ARIZONA; COLORADO PLATEAU; GRAND CANYON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956044640     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/focus072010.1     Document Type: Note

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