Palinspastic restoration of NAVDat and implications for the origin of magmatism in southwestern North America

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 115, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  McQuarrie, Nadine ^a   Oskin, Michael ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; DATA SET; DEFORMATION; FAULTING; GIS; MAGMATISM; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PLATE BOUNDARY; RIFTING; SLAB; SOFTWARE; SUBDUCTION; VOLCANISM;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; RIO GRANDE RIFT;

EID: 77958118865     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JB006435     Document Type: Article

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