Extension of the Anaconda metamorphic core complex: 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology and implications for Eocene tectonics of the northern Rocky Mountains and the Boulder batholith

Lithosphere

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 232-246

  Foster, David A ^a   Grice, Warren C ^a   Kalakay, Thomas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Rocky Mountain College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAULT SLIPS; LANDFORMS; MICA; PHOSPHATE MINERALS;

APATITE FISSION TRACKS; APATITE-FISSION-TRACK; DISPLACEMENT RATE; LATERAL GRADIENT; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS; OLIGOCENE; TECTONIC SETTINGS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TRACK DATA;

FISSION REACTIONS;

APATITE; BATHOLITH; CORDILLERA; CRETACEOUS; DETACHMENT FAULT; DISPLACEMENT; EOCENE; EXHUMATION; FAULT SLIP; FISSION TRACK DATING; FOOTWALL; GREENSCHIST FACIES; HANGING WALL; MINERALIZATION; MYLONITIZATION; OLIGOCENE; POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING; TECTONIC SETTING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

ANACONDA; IDAHO; MONTANA; PRIEST RIVER; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE;

EID: 78549247187     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L94.1     Document Type: Article

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